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Federal Court Finds That Training AI on Copyrighted Books is “Quintessentially” Transformative Fair Use

A federal district court in the Northern District of California has ruled that the use of lawfully acquired copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) is a fair use under U.S....more

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Copyright Office Firings Spark Constitutional Concerns Amid AI Policy Tensions

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A day after announcing that “fair use” would not shield AI training models against potential copyright infringement, President Donald Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights, and her superior, Librarian of...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Use of Copyrighted Works for AI Training Purposes is Exceedingly, Spectacularly, and Quintessentially Transformative

On June 23, 2025, the Northern District of California federal district court issued the first substantive district court decision regarding the intersection of copyright law and generative artificial intelligence. The case...more

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Disney and Universal Sue Midjourney: Navigating AI Copyright Challenges and Fair Use Implications

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The Walt Disney Company and Universal City Studios Productions are among the latest plaintiffs to bring a lawsuit against an artificial intelligence (AI) developer....more

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Copyright Office Stakes Out Position on Use of Works for AI Training

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Key Takeaways - -The U.S. Copyright Office released a “prepublication” version of Part Three of its artificial intelligence (AI) report addressing generative AI training. -The report considers both whether training a...more

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U.S. Copyright Office Issues Guidance on Generative AI Training

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To address the legal issues presented by artificial intelligence ("AI"), the U.S. Copyright Office ("Office") launched a multi-part Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Report ("Report") (see our Commentaries on Part One and...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Copyright, AI, and Politics

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In early 2023, the US Copyright Office (CO) initiated an examination of copyright law and policy issues raised by artificial intelligence (AI), including the scope of copyright in AI-generated works and the use of copyrighted...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Copyright Office Weighs In on AI Training and Fair Use

On May 9, 2025, the United States Copyright Office (the USCO) released a 108-page report on whether the unauthorized use of copyrighted materials to train generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems is defensible as a...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Generative AI Training May Not Qualify for the Fair Use Defense

Last week, the Copyright Office released the third and final part of its report exploring copyright-related issues posed by artificial intelligence (AI). Unlike the first two parts, the third was released as a...more

Kaufman & Canoles

AI and Copyrights

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Hours before the Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, was unceremoniously fired, the U.S. Copyright Office published long-awaited guidance on the use of copyrighted content for training artificial intelligence (AI)....more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: US Copyright Office Releases “Pre-Publication Version” of Report on Copyright Issues in Generative AI Training

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On May 9, 2025, the US Copyright Office released a “pre-publication version” of Part 3 of its report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (the Report). This much-anticipated Report focuses on use of copyrighted works in...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Copyright Office Weighs in on Use of Copryighted Works for LLM Training

A day before the firing of the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, the third installment of the office's series of reports on copyright issues and AI was released. The 113-page document covers a lot of ground, not the least of...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Copyright Office Report on Training AI and Fair Use

The Copyright Office released a “Pre-publication” version of Part 3 of its Report on Copyright and AI. Coincidentally (?) Shira Perlmuter, the Register of Copyrights, was fired amid a shakeup at the Copyright Office. The...more

Miller Nash LLP

When Man Beats Machine: The Latest in Artificial Intelligence and Copyright

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Summer must be coming, because the courts are starting to heat up with copyright decisions in artificial intelligence (AI) cases. We’ve previously written here, here, and here about Dr. Stephen Thaler’s attempts to register...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

AI and Copyright: What a Recent Court Ruling Means for AI Creators and Intellectual Property Rights

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In a significant decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently ruled that the Copyright Act of 1976 requires human authorship to register a work, affirming the district court’s denial of a...more

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DC Circuit Weighs in On Human Authorship

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The DC Circuit has reaffirmed and reinforced longstanding Copyright Office policy that only humans can be authors....more

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AI Legal Watch: March 27, 2025

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The recent decision in Thaler v. Perlmutter et al., No. 23-5233 (D.C. Cir. 2025) offers continued guidance on whether “authorship” can be attributed to AI systems (i.e., non-humans) under Copyright Law. The D.C. Circuit...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Making Your Mark

What a Piece of Work is a Man [made piece of art] Non-humans (Still) Can’t be Authors Under the Copyright Act

Last week, the D.C. Circuit upheld the Copyright Office’s refusal to register the copyright in this image, which was created entirely by AI. This is consistent with longstanding precedent (in the US, at least) that only...more

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DC Circuit Court Rules AI Cannot be Author of Copyrighted Work, and NIST Finalizes AI Report — AI: The Washington Report

On March 18, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that an AI model cannot be the author of copyrighted material under existing copyright law. The court affirmed the US Copyright Office’s long-standing human...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Is (Copyright) Paradise Lost for A Recent Entrance to Paradise and Other AI-Generated Works?

Last week, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its opinion in Thaler v. Perlmutter. The opinion notably solidifies the U.S. Copyright Office’s position that works generated autonomously (and thus solely) by artificial...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

D.C. Circuit Affirms Denial of Copyright Protection for AI-Generated Works

On March 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (the “D.C. Circuit”) ruled in Thaler v. Perlmutter, affirming that works created solely by artificial intelligence (“AI”) cannot be...more

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints

Federal Agencies Take Action on AI One Year After AI Executive Order — AI: The Washington Report

President Biden’s Executive Order on AI (AI EO), issued on October 30, 2023, directed various agencies to take certain actions within one year of the AI EO’s issuance. On October 24, 2024, the White House announced that...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

All Eyes on AI: Regulatory, Litigation, and Transactional Developments – Q2 2024

The firm is pleased to distribute the Q2 2024 edition of All Eyes on AI: Regulatory, Litigation, and Transactional Developments, which closely follows the evolving regulatory landscape for artificial intelligence (AI) in the...more

Jones Day

AI and Deepfakes: U.S. Copyright Office Urges Federal Digital Replica Law

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The Situation: In early 2023, the U.S. Copyright Office ("Office") launched a new initiative to examine the intersection of copyright law and artificial intelligence ("AI"). Later that year, the Office issued Registration...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Tailoring Compliance Before AI Walks The Runway

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Generative AI tools such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are increasingly being used to produce static 2D images, and technology from companies like Runway AI Inc., which recently hosted its second annual AI Film...more

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