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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

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

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

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

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

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

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

Mayer Brown

Generative AI and Copyright Law, Part Two: Fair Use and Infringement Risks

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As generative AI transforms the way businesses operate, understanding copyright risks has never been more critical. In this episode, host Julian Dibbell sits down with Rich Assmus and Brian Nolan, partners in our Intellectual...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

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Copyright Infringement Liability for Generative AI Training Following the Copyright Office’s AI Report and Administrative Shakeup

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When multiple forces act on an object, its direction of motion is determined by the net force, which is the vector sum of all individual forces. When this happens within our federal government, we call it “interesting times.”...more

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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

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U.S. Copyright Office Issues Part 3 Pre-Publication Report on Generative AI and Copyright Law

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The U.S. Copyright Office released a pre-publication version of its third report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, a key installment in its ongoing examination of AI's intersection with copyright law. This report...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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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

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