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Copyright protection is a negative right. Nobody can copy your work without getting your permission. If OpenAI did not get Studio Ghibli’s nod to train its LLM on the studio’s original, hand-drawn artwork style, we need to ask whether it is copyright infringement.

I’m talking to Ameet Datta. The founder of ADP Law Offices specializes in intellectual property and TMT (telecommunications, media and technology) law, and has devoted more than two decades to its practice. A litigation lawyer, Datta has an explanatory style of conversation but he still has an intimidating presence in the room, typical of lawyers who’ve spent time in courts arguing matters. I had messaged him earlier in the day about the latest at OpenAI, one of the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence companies.
And 25 minutes into our conversation, he asks me. “Here’s a hypothetical for you,” he says. …
A churn in venture capital collides with the fear of missing the AI wave, while the Ajay Singh-led airline’s recurring crises raise deeper questions.