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
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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