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The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked a pressing legal debate over how copyrighted materials can be used to train generative AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs), without permission...more
AI developers and content owners in the UK and around the world are eagerly anticipating the outcome of the Getty Images v. Stability AI trial. One of the most commercially significant aspects of the case is the relevance of...more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Federal courts continue to address whether training artificial intelligence ("AI") models on copyrighted materials without a license constitutes copyright infringement....more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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