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
7/8/2025
/ Algorithms ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Books ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Corporate Counsel ,
e-Books ,
Fair Use ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Legal Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
Search Engines ,
Summary Judgment ,
Third-Party ,
Thomson Reuters ,
Transformative Use
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
In April 2024, we published a summary of the then current state of artificial intelligence (“AI”)-related copyright litigation. Since that publication, new theories for complaints and defenses have emerged in this space. As...more
The future of controlled digital lending (“CDL”), the digital equivalent of traditional library lending, is uncertain after the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s judgment in Hachette Book Group, Inc. v....more
11/12/2024
/ Authorship ,
Compensation ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Digital Services ,
Fair Use ,
First Sale Doctrine ,
Internet Archive (IA) ,
Lending ,
Right of Reproduction ,
The Copyright Act