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The recently proposed $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic—one of the most prominent artificial intelligence (AI) developers—and a class of authors and publishers was poised to be the largest copyright settlement in U.S....more
Anthropic, a leading developer of artificial intelligence large language models (LLMs), has reached a settlement in a closely watched dispute with a class of authors and publishers who alleged copyright infringement arising...more
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Key Takeaways - - The European Commission published its Code of Practice for General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Models on July 10, 2025, following three draft versions and just weeks before the first AI Act obligations take effect....more
Within the same week, two judges in the Northern District of California issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings regarding whether an artificial intelligence company’s scraping and ingestion of copyrighted works to...more
Another federal court recently ruled that using copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems can qualify as fair use under the U.S. Copyright Act. This time, the court said that, because the issue of market...more
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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
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Key takeaways from the US Copyright Office’s Copyrightability Report and the DC Circuit’s March 2025 Thaler decision - On January 29, 2025, the US Copyright Office issued Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2:...more
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