TorrentFreak

JUNE 26, 2025

At the same time, however, the company denied the copyright infringement allegations, noting that it would rely on a fair use defense, at least in part. Meanwhile, the authors argued that the downloading of millions of books cannot be classified as fair use, since the source of the books is clearly copyright-infringing.

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The Illusion of More

JUNE 26, 2025

Headlines flood the feeds announcing that a California District Court sided with AI developer Anthropic, finding that LLM training with unlicensed works is fair use. While the headlines are true, I wouldn’t read the conclusions as gospel just yet.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2023

Here's what it says and what it means for fair use moving forward. The post How the Warhol Ruling Could Change Fair Use appeared first on Plagiarism Today. The Supreme Court has handed down its decision in the Andy Warhol case.

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The IPKat

JUNE 29, 2025

It's been a thrilling (in the loosest sense) week for copyright enthusiasts, as two rulings have been issued by judges in the Northern Direct of California in two separate cases brought by book authors (namely Bartz v Anthropic and Kadrey v Meta) on the question of fair use in AI training.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 22, 2025

One such legal issues is what is referred to as “fair use,” which becomes particularly problematic in the context of the copyright law. Thus, fundamental questions arise, such as whether such copying amounts to infringement under copyright law or whether it falls under the purview of fair use. Google, Inc.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 3, 2025

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 digitization of acquired print works fell within the bounds of fair use.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Credit: author Yes folks, it is Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week again (Feb 20-24, 2023). As I wrote last year at this time, the activity is promoted by the Association of Research Libraries in the US, with separate components labelled Fair Dealing Week in Canada and the UK.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The Copyright Claims Board has ruled in favor of two podcasters in a bitter battle over fair use and a TikTok video. The post Do We Know Them Podcasters Win Fair Use CCB Case appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 3, 2025

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 the heart of generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) platforms. By: Husch Blackwell LLP

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Hugh Stephens Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Image: Shutterstock For those of you who may have missed it, this is “Fair Use and Fair Dealing” week, sponsored once again this year by the Association of Research Libraries in the US and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries in Canada.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In a recent decision ( Case 1:20-cv-00613, ECF 770 ) on the use of copyrighted texts for AI (but not generative AI) training, the Delaware District Court (the Court) held that a fair use defence was unsuccessful on a summary judgment motion for copyright infringement. If so, could Ross rely on the fair use defence?

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 27, 2025

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). In both cases, the courts found that the alleged use of copyrighted books for AI training constituted fair use under U.S.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Scanning books to create a searchable database of books constitutes fair use. Will scanning images (or other copyright-protected content) to create a generative AI model for use in creating images be deemed fair use? Scanning books to create eBooks does not. In Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., (the Google, Inc., (the

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JD Supra Law

JULY 8, 2025

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. By: Ropes & Gray LLP

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 27, 2025

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, ordered summary judgment in favor of Meta Platforms Inc. By: Venable LLP

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

A federal district court in Delaware has issued the first AI copyright fair use decision on the merits, granting partial summary judgment for copyright owner Thomson Reuters on copyright infringement and rejecting defendant Ross Intelligences fair use defense.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

that the defendants unauthorized use of the plaintiffs copyrighted materials to train its legal research AI tool was not fair use. This ruling is the first reported case to address whether the use of copyrighted training data for AI training constitutes fair use. ROSS Intelligence Inc.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 14, 2025

Meta Platforms marked the first major judicial test of whether using copyrighted works to train generative AI systemslike Metas LLaMA modelsqualifies as fair use under U.S. The three hour hearing in Kadrey v. copyright law. By: Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

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JD Supra Law

JULY 3, 2025

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 businesses that rely on AI vendors. By: Ballard Spahr LLP

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Ross Intelligence will get plenty of second looks from courts deciding fair use in generative AI copyright cases. Those were some of the phrases legal commentators used to describe Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith in the days following the Supreme Courts 2023 landmark fair use decision.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 26, 2025

A federal district court in San Francisco ruled that training AI models with copyright-protected works is fair use. By: Goodwin

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 27, 2025

Just two days after Judge Alsup issued his fair use decision in Bartz v. Judge Chhabria ruled that, on the record before him, it was fair use for Meta to train its large language models with copyrighted books.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 27, 2025

Anthropic PBC, clarifying the application of the fair use doctrine to the use of copyrighted books in training large language models (LLMs). On June 23, 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued a significant order in Bartz, et al.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2025

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 Copyright Act claim in the same case against Meta. By: Farella Braun + Martel LLP

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 4, 2025

We previously reported on the groundbreaking AI Fair Use ruling in the Thomson Reuters Ross Intelligence case, where the court found that based on the facts of this case fair use was not a defense. Ross Intelligence moved, pursuant to 28 U.S.C.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Fair Use is one of the principles being mooted in defense of OpenAI to argue that the latters Use of the formers copyrighted content fits within Fair Use thresholds and is, thereby, justifiable. 2015), also known as the Google Books Case. [2]

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 27, 2025

Yet, until this week, no US court had squarely applied the four statutory fair use factors to the merits of those claims. America’s frontier artificial intelligence (AI) labs have faced years of copyright litigation over their ingestion of books, news, and other expressive works.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 11, 2025

THE DOCTRINE OF FAIR USE IN DESCRIPTIVE TRADEMARKS Descriptive trademarks raise an important doctrine of trademark law, which is the doctrine of fair use. The legal principle underlying this is that in some situations, another’s trademark can be used without actually committing infringement.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 26, 2025

District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that some of Anthropic’s uses of copyrighted books to teach its large language models (LLMs) qualify as fair use. As a result, he found that the use of digitized versions of purchased hard copy books does not. By: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In one of the most closely-watched copyright cases this year, a Delaware court rejected defendant, ROSS Intelligences (ROSS), fair use and other defenses by vacating its previous stance and granting summary judgement in favor of plaintiff, Thomson Reuters (Reuters).

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JD Supra Law

JULY 3, 2025

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. Andersen v. Stability AI, Getty v. Stability AI, Doe v. Many more suits have since followed. By: Knobbe Martens

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JD Supra Law

JULY 9, 2025

Two days apart, two judges in the Northern District of California decided on summary judgment that two examples of using copyrighted works to train AI models were transformative, and ultimately fair use under US copyright law.

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Copyright Alliance

JUNE 26, 2025

Anthropic, addressing fair use as it relates to both […] The post Fair Use Decision Fumbles Training Analysis but Sends Clear Piracy Message appeared first on Copyright Alliance. On June 23, a district court in the Northern District of California issued an order on summary judgment in Bartz v.

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Barry Sookman

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

11, 2025) examined three essential questions, 1) were the Westlaw headnotes and key number system taxonomy protected by copyright, 2) did Rosss copying of the headnotes to create legal memos used to train Rosss AI system infringe copyright, subject to the defense of fair use, and 3) was Ross copying fair use.…

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 26, 2025

Anthropic PBC, granting in part and denying in part Defendant Anthropic’s motion for summary judgment on the sole issue of whether its use of Plaintiffs’ books as training data for Anthropic’s large language models (LLMs) was “quintessential” fair use. By: Venable LLP

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Barry Sookman

JUNE 24, 2025

He summarized his ruling as follows: The use of the books at issue to train Claude and its precursors was exceedingly transformative and was a fair use under Section 107 of the Copyright Act. … The post Anthropic AI Decision on Copyright Fair Use appeared first on Barry Sookman.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 23, 2025

By carefully selecting his targets, Klein has made a reasonably strong case that these streams were not fair use. However, fair use is not the only topic of discussion. To that end, he makes a powerful argument against fair use. Some are considered fair use, while others are not.

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