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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

Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP

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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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

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

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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In First Major Substantive Decision Addressing GenAI Training Data, Judge Alsup Declares Large Language Models “Among the Most...

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On June 23, 2025, Judge Alsup issued a much-anticipated summary judgment ruling in a copyright case brought by a group of authors seeking to challenge Anthropic’s alleged copying of millions of books in connection with...more

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Major Studios Strike Back: Disney & Universal Sue Midjourney Over AI-Created Characters

On June 11, 2025, Disney (including Lucasfilm, Marvel, and 20th Century Studios) and Universal Pictures (including DreamWorks) filed a Complaint for direct and secondary copyright infringement in the Central District of...more

Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP

Getty Images vs. Stability AI: The Landmark Copyright Battle Shaping The Future of Generative AI

Getty Images, a well-known visual media company and supplier of stock images, is facing off against a London-based artificial intelligence company, Stability AI, in what is considered to be the first major copyright trial of...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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AI and Copyright: Navigating the Legal Maze with Liz Rothman

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In this episode of Knobbe IP+, Knobbe Martens partner Mark Lezama is joined by attorney and emerging technology advisor Liz Rothman to discuss the complex topic of artificial intelligence and copyright law. During their...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

Disney and Universal’s AI Lawsuit, Nvidia’s Expansion, Meta’s AI “World Model”

In this week’s News of Note, Disney and Universal target alleged copyright infringement, OpenAI and Mattel team up to bring artificial intelligence to toymaking and China launches its production of the world’s first...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

AI News Roundup – Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for copyright infringement, EU considers pause on AI Act regulations, Google...

To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more

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IP Hot Topic: The (Media) Empire Strikes Back

Some of the largest movie studios have entered the fray of GenAI copyright litigation. Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures, and DreamWorks sued the image-GenAI company Midjourney, Inc. in the...more

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Court Orders OpenAI to Retain All Output Log Data: Considerations for ChatGPT Users

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In the ongoing copyright infringement case brought by The New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft (The New York Times Company v. Microsoft Corporation et al., Case No. 1:23-cv-11195 (S.D.N.Y.)), Judge Ona T. Wang recently...more

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Class Dismissed? Representative Claims in Getty v. Stability AI

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Earlier this year, the English High Court considered an application for strike out of a representative action in the ongoing dispute between Getty and Stability AI. The case is at the intersection of intellectual property...more

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These Are the Lawsuits You’re Looking For: Fortnite’s AI Voice Dispute

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A long time ago in a galaxy not so far away, voice acting was the exclusive domain of talented humans. But today, in the age of generative AI, even the iconic voice of a legendary villain can be conjured without a single...more

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Navigating the Legal Landscape of AI-Generated Code: Ownership and Liability Challenges

Programming is rapidly transforming from a manual, line-by-line exercise into an iterative collaboration between programmers and their large language model (LLM) of choice. Working inside modern integrated development...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

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