IP Law | Brand protection | Combating Counterfeits Introduction: Young and Ambitious A tearful teenager seated at her kitchen counter would not, at first glance, appear to pose a threat to one of the most valuable luxury automotive brands in the world. But when a homemade sticker shop run by a
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Megatron Mimicry: Authors Sue Microsoft Over Pirated Books in AI Training
Copyright Infringement | Fair Use Debate | Industry-Wide Implications In late June 2025, a coalition of high-profile authors—including Kai Bird, Jia Tolentino, and Daniel Okrent—filed a landmark lawsuit in the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs allege Microsoft trained its Megatron large language model (LM) on nearly 200,000 pirated books, producing outputs that