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Key Takeaways - Courts Lean Toward Fair Use for AI Training: Two California rulings suggest that using copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence (AI) may be considered fair use if outputs are transformative and do...more
District court holds that Meta’s downloading of books from online “shadow libraries” and use of such books to train its Llama large language models constitutes fair use, but endorses “market dilution” theory of harm as...more
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
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
On June 11, 2025, Disney and several affiliated production companies filed a federal lawsuit against Midjourney, Inc., a leading artificial intelligence (AI) image-generation platform. The suit alleges “calculated and...more
Federal courts continue to address whether training artificial intelligence ("AI") models on copyrighted materials without a license constitutes copyright infringement....more
When you are in the business of creating content, it’s crucial to know when licenses or permissions are required to use the intellectual property of others (such as copyright and trademarks). In this article, we explore what...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Artificial intelligence presents so many opportunities, but there are still so many questions in relation to copyright law. What constitutes fair use? How much human input satisfies the human authorship requirement? Can...more
Given that litigation in the United States can take years from start to finish, we rarely see a conclusion to the cases we follow. In a prior blog post, we looked at the potential recusal requirements of the U.S. Supreme...more
In February 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office released a report titled “Identifying the Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Copyright Policy.” Edited by Brent Lutes, the Office’s chief economist, the volume...more
On January 29, the U.S. Copyright Office released Part 2 of its planned 3-part report on the legal and policy issues related to copyright and artificial intelligence (AI). Part 1 of the report, which was published in July...more
In the fast-paced and competitive world of furniture and design, where partnerships and innovations flourish, but consumers’ attention is increasingly divided, legal disputes are increasingly common....more
A US court (in Delaware) recently handed down a precedent-setting ruling on a lawsuit filed by a copyright-owner, the media and technology conglomerate, Thomson Reuters, against the artificial intelligence platform, Ross...more
As has been widely reported, including in our year-end summary of the current state of artificial intelligence (“AI”)-related copyright litigation, AI providers are currently facing a wave of lawsuits1 from copyright owners...more
“A smart man knows when he is right; a wise man knows when he is wrong. Wisdom does not always find me, so I try to embrace it when it does—even if it comes late, as it did here.” It’s not common for a federal judge to make...more
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
There are numerous actions currently pending in federal courts that involve artificial intelligence ("AI") and copyright law. Among other things, courts must determine if infringement occurs when an AI is trained on...more