"Rather than walking through the four-factor fair use analysis for each case, this column will discuss two significant caveats that these decisions have added to the ongoing debate in the courts about ...
The US Copyright Office's report comes as the agency is under political fire, with President Trump reportedly firing its head this weekend. Katelyn is a reporter with ...
A judge’s decision that Anthropic‘s use of copyrighted books to train its AI models is a “fair use” is likely only the start of lengthy litigation to resolve one of the most hotly contested questions ...
Within the same week, two judges in the Northern District of California issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings regarding whether an artificial intelligence company’s scraping and ingestion of ...
The copyright for the original versions of Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse have expired. Now, members of the public can create—and are busy creating—their own works based on these beloved characters.
Until two weeks ago, no U.S. court had ruled on whether training generative AI models on copyrighted works could constitute a fair use, or if the simple act of training such models without a license ...
A day after the US Copyright Office dropped a bombshell pre-publication report challenging artificial intelligence firms’ argument that all AI training should be ...
“Taken together, these three decisions show that U.S. fair-use doctrine is not marching in a single direction for AI training and it will take some time for appellate decisions to start providing a ...
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 21: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (R), accompanied by U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in ...
“Wisdom does not always find me, so I try to embrace it when it does–even if it comes late, as it did here.” Judge Stephanos Bibas Yesterday, Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas, sitting by designation in ...
For a regularly updated case tracker covering intellectual property and privacy-related lawsuits concerning GenAI (including more decisions addressing fair use), see Generative AI: Federal Litigation ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — an institution built to celebrate the people who make the culture — finds itself on the other side of a copyright fight after using a photo by veteran ...