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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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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

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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

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

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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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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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From Books to Bots: Key Takeaways from the Anthropic Fair Use Decision for AI Developers and Copyright Holders

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On June 23, 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued a significant order in Bartz, et al. v. Anthropic PBC, clarifying the application of the fair use doctrine to the use of...more

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District Court Issues AI Fair Use Decision: Using Copyrighted Works To Train AI Models Is Fair Use, but Using “Pirated” Copies To...

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A federal district court in San Francisco ruled that training AI models with copyright-protected works is fair use. On June 23, 2025, Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic did not infringe the books of three authors used...more

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Court Holds That Anthropic’s Training of AI Using Legally Obtained Books Is Fair Use, but Storage of Pirated Books Is Not

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On June 23, 2025, Judge Alsup in the Northern District of California issued an order in Bartz et al. v. Anthropic PBC, granting in part and denying in part Defendant Anthropic’s motion for summary judgment on the sole issue...more

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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

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Pirates of the Claudeibbean: Judge Alsup Splits the Baby on AI Fair Use

In one of the most consequential decisions to date involving generative artificial intelligence (genAI) and copyright law, Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that some...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

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

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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

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Kadrey v. Meta: The First Major Test of Fair Use in the Age of Generative AI

On May 1, 2025, a federal courtroom in San Francisco became ground zero for one of the most consequential copyright hearings in recent memory. The three hour hearing in Kadrey v. Meta Platforms marked the first major judicial...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

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Fair Use and the Future of AI: A Closer Look at Thomson Reuters v. Ross

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Just two months in, 2025 is already delivering significant developments in AI and technology law. In this episode, host Julian Dibbell is joined by Rich Assmus, a partner in our Intellectual Property practice, to discuss...more

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