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McDermott Will & Emery

Fair use or foul play? The AI fair use copyright line

The US District Court for the Northern District of California granted summary judgment in favor of an artificial intelligence (AI) company, finding that its use of lawfully acquired copyrighted materials for training and its...more

Knobbe Martens

Fair Use and the Future of Generative AI: Lessons from the Meta and Anthropic Copyright Cases

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With the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, generative AI entered the cultural zeitgeist. Not surprisingly, within a few months, the first generative AI lawsuits were filed in the U.S. (e.g., Andersen v. Stability AI, Getty v....more

Ballard Spahr LLP

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

Irwin IP LLP

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

Fenwick & West LLP

Two Federal Courts Rule That Reproduction of Books to Train LLMs Is Fair Use - But with Caveats and Strikingly Different Views

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In separate high-profile actions brought by authors against Anthropic and Meta, two California federal judges ruled that the reproduction of copyright-protected books to train large language models (LLMs) was fair use that...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

Jones Day

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

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

Womble Bond Dickinson

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

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

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

Venable LLP

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

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

Wiley Rein LLP

Copyright Office Issues Key Guidance on Fair Use in Generative AI Training

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On May 9, 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office (the Office) released the third and final report in its “Copyright and Artificial Intelligence” series, offering its most comprehensive guidance to date on one of the most contested...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

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

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

US Copyright Office Releases Long-Awaited Report on Generative AI Training and Copyright Law

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On May 9, the U.S. Copyright Office issued a prepublication version of Part 3 of its multipart report titled “Copyright and Artificial Intelligence: Generative AI Training,” addressing the use of copyrighted works in the...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

Mayer Brown

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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Copyright Office Releases Part 2 of Artificial Intelligence Report

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On January 29, 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office issued part two of it's report on Artificial Intelligence ("AI") which addresses the topic of “copyrightability” as it relates to AI. This report follows an extensive initiative...more

Vondran Legal

Copyright Law and BodyCam Video

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I saw this question online and decided to answer it here on my blog.  It raises some very interesting and timely questions about the scope and reach of copyright law in our modern age. Many people want to know, is police...more

International Lawyers Network

IP ├ IP???: The Logic Of Election Year Legal Disputes Over Proprietary Intangibles

Title? Typo? Cryptic code? Equation? Really it is a combination of three of the four. In other words, it is not a typo (You can look elsewhere in this piece for those)....more

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