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McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Anthropic’s $1.5 Billion Copyright Deal: Is the Record Settlement Just an R&D Expense?

The latest development in U.S. copyright law is that generative artificial intelligence (genAI) company Anthropic has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by a group of authors and publishers for a record $1.5...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

Anthropic’s Landmark Copyright Settlement: Implications for AI Developers and Enterprise Users

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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

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

AI News Roundup – Anthropic settles copyright infringement lawsuit for $1.5 billion, Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney for...

To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following. • The New York Times reports that AI company Anthropic will settle a copyright infringement...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Copyright and Generative AI: Recent Developments on the Use of Copyrighted Works in AI

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Generative AI models rely on billions of copyrighted works as training data. These works are not merely “data,” but creative expressions protected under copyright law. In May 2025, the United States Copyright Office (USCO)...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

AI and the Fair Use Defense: Lessons from Two Recent Summary Judgment Rulings

Two judges in the Northern District of California recently issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings regarding whether an artificial intelligence company’s scraping and ingestion of copyrighted works to train its LLMs[1]...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

Fair Use or Infringement? Recent Court Rulings on AI Trained on Copyrighted Works

Artificial intelligence (AI) is now part of daily life, powering customer service chatbots, virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa, automated email responses, and personalized shopping recommendations. But as these systems...more

Jaburg Wilk

Two Decisions, Two Distinct Approaches: What Recent AI Copyright Decisions Mean for Authors and Developers

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As lawsuits over artificial intelligence and copyrights continue to unfold, two recent federal court decisions from the Northern District of California provide early insight—conflicting at times—into how judges will begin to...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

IP Hot Topic: From Trillion-Dollar Risk to Resolution: Settlement in the Anthropic Authors’ Class Action

In a July IP Hot Topic, we wrote about a pivotal summary judgment ruling in Bartz v. Anthropic that added another data point in the newly forming fair use landscape for copyright actions against GenAI companies. In that case,...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Anthropic’s Great Book Heist: Do the Ends Justify the Means When It Comes to Training AI?

Robin Hood, the legendary antihero, is beloved for stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. But what if he stole from the rich and then gave to his own bank account, with the explicit intent of writing checks to the...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

AI Fair Use Decisions Bode Well for the Semiconductor Industry

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Summary judgment was recently granted for defendants based on fair use in two copyright infringement actions challenging the training of large language models (LLMs), one against Meta relating to its Llama LLMs, and the other...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Australian Productivity Commission Proposes Text & Data Mining Exception to Copyright Infringement for AI Training

In response to a request to identify ‘priority reforms’ under the Australian Government’s productivity growth agenda, on 5 August 2025 the Productivity Commission released an interim report entitled Harnessing data and...more

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Fair Use and AI: What Buyers and Investors Need to Know

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Buy-side investors typically require the target company to represent that it has not infringed on the copyrights or other intellectual property of any third party. Typical language might read: “The operation of the Company as...more

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth

Training AI Models? Here's What You Need to Know About Copyright Risks

It is undeniable that artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere and having unprecedented rapid effects on business and society.  The law, however, evolves at a slower pace and it takes key decisions by courts and government...more

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

AI, Copyright, and Recent Decisions: Legal Priorities for Rights Holders

The past few weeks have seen a flurry of activity in the legislature and the courts relating to Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). Since the founding of our nation, there has been ongoing debate about whether legal matters...more

International Lawyers Network

What’s the “Use”?

The evolution of generative artificial intelligence has prompted courts in two highly-publicized recent federal district court decisions to apply copyright law’s doctrine of fair use to the “training” and output of generative...more

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South Korean Copyright Office Issues AI Guidance

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In June 2025, South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Copyright Commission released two guides related to the intersection of artificial intelligence ("AI") and copyright law. These guides, the...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Judges Take Divergent Paths to Find AI Training "Fair Use"

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Two California district court judges recently issued competing rulings pertaining to fair use as a defense against the alleged improper use of copyrighted works to train large language models (LLMs). The two orders, issued...more

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(Podcast) The Briefing: The Wrong Argument – Why Authors Lost Against Meta and What Comes Next

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In a major win for Meta, a federal court recently dismissed a lawsuit brought by prominent authors who claimed their books were illegally used to train the company’s Llama models. But the ruling doesn’t give AI companies a...more

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The Briefing: The Wrong Argument – Why Authors Lost Against Meta and What Comes Next

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In a major win for Meta, a federal court recently dismissed a lawsuit brought by prominent authors who claimed their books were illegally used to train the company’s Llama models. But the ruling doesn’t give AI companies a...more

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California’s Latest Dueling Rulings — Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials in AI Algorithms

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Generative AI (GenAI) algorithms require data inputs to analyze, transform, and generate content. But does using copyrighted material without prior authorization for training or operating these algorithms infringe on the...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Harmonizing AI and Copyright: Fair Use in the Age of Generative Music

In previous Snippets articles and AI News Roundups, we introduced the current lawsuits between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and two of the largest generative AI music companies, Suno and Udio. To...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

IP Hot Topic: A Clash in California: Judicial Tug of War Between the Primacy of Transformative Use and Market Effect in GenAI Fair...

2025 Summer Associate Wade Marshall contributed to this article. Recently, two Northern District of California decisions revealed fault lines in the forming fair use terrain for GenAI copyright infringement actions. Both...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Growing Momentum for AI’s Fair Use Defense: Lessons from Two Recent Summary Judgment Rulings

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

Loeb & Loeb LLP

What Gen AI court rulings mean for content owners and creators

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Recent court decisions in two highly publicized Gen AI cases favored the platforms and may start to reduce the concerns over using Gen AI. But content owners and those working for them should still understand the legal...more

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(Podcast) The Briefing: Anthropic, Copyright, and the Fair Use Divide

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A federal judge has ruled that training Claude AI on copyrighted books—even without a license—was transformative and protected under fair use. But storing millions of pirated books in a permanent internal library? That...more

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