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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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Internet Archive’s Controlled Digital Book Lending Program Violates Copyright Law, Says Federal Appeals

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A Federal appeals court has ruled that the nonprofit Internet Archive’s “controlled digital lending program” – which creates and lends fully digitized copies of books – does not meet the copyright law’s definition of a fair...more

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Second Circuit Holds Digital Lending Library Violated Copyright Act

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The Second Circuit recently affirmed a ruling that Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library, violated the Copyright Act with its “Controlled Digital Lending” program. In 2020, four leading book publishers sued Internet...more

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Second Circuit Holds That the Internet Archive's Controlled Digital Book Lending Is Not a Fair Use Under Copyright Law, a Major...

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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a resounding victory to the publishing industry on Wednesday, September 4, 2024, in Hachette Books v. Internet Archive, holding that the Internet Archive's "controlled digital...more

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