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A Temporary Victory: What the New Anthropic and Meta Rulings Actually Reveal About a Fair Use Defense for Companies Accused of...

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 would constitute copyright...more

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A Tale of Three Cases: How Fair Use Is Playing Out in AI Copyright Lawsuits

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In two recent Northern District of California decisions, AI companies prevailed on a fair use defense after being accused of infringing copyrights in works used to train AI models. The decisions, on their face, seem to...more

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AI Legal Watch: July 2

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The European Commission recently launched a public consultation on the implementation of the AI Act, primarily focused on the classification (and ultimate regulation) of “high risk” AI systems. The AI Act employs a risk-based...more

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Recent Decisions Clarify Fair Use Doctrine in AI Context

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Two Northern District of California courts handed down decisions last week in two key copyright lawsuits that challenged the use of copyrighted print and digital books in training the large language models (LLMs) that are at...more

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Novel Ruling Offers Framework for ‘Fair Use’ of Copyrighted Material for Training AI Systems

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The recent federal court finding—that using copyrighted books to train an AI large language model (LLM) qualifies as fair use—provides some guidance for companies developing or deploying generative AI systems and for...more

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Kadrey v. Meta - Fair Use as a Matter of Law

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Kadrey v. Meta! On the merits! A doozy of a summary judgment opinion in form and substance. "The devil is in the details," but even for non-lawyers, at least the first five pages are a must-read - there are almost no legal...more

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A Black Flag For Authors: AI Training Ruled Fair Use

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Bartz et al. v. Anthropic PBC, No. C 24-05417 (N.D. Cal. 2025) - In Bartz et al. v. Anthropic, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California considered whether Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books—many...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Fair Use Ruling Undermines Related DMCA Claim

After previously dismissing infringement claims on the ground that using copyrighted works to train a large language model qualified as fair use, a federal judge in California has now also dismissed a key Digital Millennium...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Bartz v. Anthropic: Early Look at Copyright Claims and Generative AI

On June 23, 2025, Senior Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California issued a highly anticipated summary judgment opinion in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC. This is one of the first decisions of many to come dealing...more

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Two U.S. Courts Address Fair Use in Generative AI Training Cases

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Federal courts continue to address whether training artificial intelligence ("AI") models on copyrighted materials without a license constitutes copyright infringement....more

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Landmark Ruling on AI Copyright: Fair Use vs. Infringement in Bartz v. Anthropic

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In one of the first substantive decisions analyzing whether the use of copyrighted works to train large language models (LLMs) for generative artificial intelligence (AI) services is infringing or a fair use, Judge William...more

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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

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Copywrong: Authors Miss the Mark(et Harm) when Arguing Meta Didn’t Engage in Fair Use

Weighing in just two days after Judge Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued his fair use summary judgment opinion in Bartz v. Anthropic, Judge Chhabria (also of the Northern District...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

The Generative Slate: Two Courts Find Fair Use in GenAI Training

This article is part of DWT's The Generative Slate series. It explores the use of generative AI in the production and distribution of content. After nearly two years since the first lawsuit involving generative AI (GenAI)...more

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Rapid fire fair use decisions suggest AI training is permissible -- sometimes

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In back-to-back decisions out of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, two federal judges have concluded that the use of copyrighted works to train AI can constitute fair use—at least under certain...more

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Multiple California Courts Enter Summary Judgment That Using Copyrighted Material to Train AI Platforms is Fair Use

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Within a roughly one-week period in late June 2025, two federal judges in the Northern District of California entered summary judgment rulings on the issue of “fair use” in connection with generative AI platforms’ use of...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Timbaland & Suno Highlight The Legal Risks of AI Music Tools

Suno is a leading AI-powered music generation platform which transforms simple text prompts, images, videos, or audio clips into fully produced songs complete with vocals and instrumentation. Last week, renowned music...more

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Court Finds Fair Use for AI Training, But Distinguishes Library of Pirated Works

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In a significant development for the field of artificial intelligence and copyright law, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a ruling in a case brought by a group of authors against AI...more

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Anthropic and Meta fair use rulings on AI model training

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America’s frontier artificial intelligence (AI) labs have faced years of copyright litigation over their ingestion of books, news, and other expressive works. Yet, until this week, no US court had squarely applied the four...more

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Back-to-Back Fair Use Decisions: Two NDCA Courts Find Fair Use for AI Training, Emphasizing That the Specific Facts Concerning...

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In the second landmark decision this week relating to whether use of copyrighted content for training generative AI qualifies as a fair use, Judge Chhabria, in the federal court for the Northern District of California,...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

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Northern District of California Judge Rules That Meta’s Training of AI Models is Fair Use

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Just two days after Judge Alsup issued his fair use decision in Bartz v. Anthropic, Judge Chhabria of the Northern District of California granted summary judgment for Meta Platforms in an AI copyright infringement suit. Judge...more

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Pair of Federal Court Rulings Find Fair Use in AI Model Training

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In the past week, two significant rulings from the Northern District of California addressed the application of the fair use doctrine to the use of copyrighted books in training large language models (LLMs). Both Meta...more

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Twin California Rulings Mark a Turning Point for AI‐Copyright Fair Use

In the space of forty-eight hours, two judges of the Northern District of California issued detailed, partially contrasting opinions on whether large language model (“LLM”) training that copies entire books without...more

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Bartz v. Anthropic: What the Ruling Means for Businesses Using AI

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In an important decision, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a mixed ruling in Bartz v. Anthropic, one of the first major copyright cases involving AI training data....more

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