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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

Husch Blackwell LLP

Recent Decisions Clarify Fair Use Doctrine in AI Context

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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

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This Week in eDiscovery: Privilege Logs are Evidence Too

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Every week, the Array team reviews the latest news and analysis about the evolving field of eDiscovery to bring you the topics and trends you need to know. This week’s post covers the period of June 22-28. Here’s what’s...more

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

Construction Law Update – Second Quarter 2025

GRSM’s Construction Group is pleased to publish the latest issue of our Construction Law Update, a quarterly take on trends of interest to design professionals, contractors, and developers throughout the country....more

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Connecticut Appellate Court Upholds Employer’s Right to Require In-Office Work

The Connecticut Appellate Court recently affirmed summary judgment in favor of a law firm employer, holding that a legal assistant’s request to work entirely remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic was not a reasonable...more

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Summary Judgment Granted in Favor of Pipe Fitting Defendant

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Court: United States Court for the Middle District of North Carolina - In this asbestos action, plaintiff Linwood W. Pierce alleged he was exposed to asbestos throughout his career as a welder and pipefitter from the...more

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Kadrey v. Meta - Fair Use as a Matter of Law

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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

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Illinois Federal Court Dismisses BIPA Claim Against Hyundai Over Driver Monitoring Technology

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A federal court in Illinois has dismissed a class action suit filed under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), finding that Hyundai did not “collect, capture, or otherwise obtain” biometric data by use of...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

Cranfill Sumner LLP

Understanding the Limits of Employer Liability Under North Carolina’s Woodson Exception

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The exclusivity provision of the North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Act (the “Act”) normally prevents an employee from suing his employer in civil court for work injuries.  The employee is normally relegated to filing a...more

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The Northern District of California Weighs in on "Transformative" Use of Copyrighted Books for Training Generative AI Tools

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Only a few months ago, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware ruled that the use of "headnotes" in a legal search tool, for the purpose of training a competing legal tool driven by artificial intelligence (AI),...more

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No Second Bite at the Apple: New Emails Can’t Undo a False Application Response

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The United States District Court for the Central District of California, applying California law, has held that an insurer could rescind liability insurance policies based on misrepresentations in the application, even though...more

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Texas Business Court Quarterly Update – Q1 and Q2 2025

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As a part of Vinson & Elkins’ Texas Business Court Quarterly Update, the following update summarizes the Texas Business Court opinions—categorized by primary issue—that have been released since September 1, 2024 through the...more

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Florida District Court Declines to Expand ERISA Disclosure Requirements

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A Florida district court recently gave TECO Energy, Inc. another victory in an ERISA case when it dismissed Plaintiff’s proposed class action with prejudice. Roche v. Teco Energy, Inc., No. 8:23-cv-01571, 2025 U.S. Dist....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

Marshall Dennehey

From ‘Brownish’ to Baseless: Florida Court Reinforces Slip-and-Fall Standards

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Key Points:  Recent case clarifies Florida premises liability law and the burden on plaintiffs under Section 768.0755, Florida Statutes....more

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Proposed Expert’s Qualification to Proffer Standard of Care Opinions Must Be Evaluated Under the Entirety of Section 512 of the...

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Key Points: Standard of Care: Patient assessment and discussion of procedures to be performed to evaluate the patient prior to surgery fall under the purview of the standard of care, not informed consent....more

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On App: Good to Go! Off App: No Bueno! How Rideshare Companies Are Defeating Vicarious Liability in Florida

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Key Points: Innovative technologies being utilized by rideshare companies are raising their chances of defeating vicarious liability claims in Florida and throughout the United States....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Tax Court Denies SECA Exception to Soroban

The Tax Court recently ruled for the IRS in another case involving the “limited partner exception” under the Self Employment Contributions Act (SECA). Code Section 1402(a)(13) generally exempts the distributive share of...more

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All Bark and All Bite

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Key Points: In New York, if the owner of an animal knew or should have known the animal had vicious propensities, a plaintiff may seek to hold the owner strictly liable....more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Copywrong: Authors Miss the Mark(et Harm) when Arguing Meta Didn’t Engage in Fair Use

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

McGinnis Lochridge

Plain Language Meets Common Sense: Hidden Traps in Oil Patch Contract Interpretation

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What happens when a court reads your contract literally for one issue but decides what 'makes sense' for another? A geophysicist just found out. In early April 2025, the Amarillo Court of Appeals reversed in part and...more

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Fifth Circuit affirms lower court’s decision holding that a credit reporting agency did not violate the FCRA by not investigating...

On June 13, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant, a credit reporting agency, and dismissing all claims brought by the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

U.S. Supreme Court holds district courts are not bound by agency interpretations in civil enforcement proceedings

On June 20, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed and remanded a lower court decision, holding that the Hobbs Act does not bind district courts in civil enforcement proceedings to an agency’s interpretation of a statute. In this...more

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