Jobiak’s Opposition to Motion to Dismiss Copyright Infringement Claims on AI-Created Database

We recently posted about the Jobiak case which raises the interesting question of whether scraping an AI-generated database of job listings constitutes copyright infringement (among other claims). Plaintiff has submitted its opposition, in which it raises the substantive arguments to the copyright claim set forth below.

As a reminder, the motion to dismiss alleges that Plaintiff’s copyright infringement claim fails whether it asserts copyright over its database or individual listings in the database. It asserts that Plaintiff owns no valid copyright over the asserted materials because its AI-generated database is not copyright eligible and the individual listings are owned by third parties and not…