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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
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
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
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
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
Knobbe Martens attorneys Mark Lezama and Lincoln Essig, along with Sam Olive, Senior Director and Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property at Cisco, will be hosting a webinar on Copyright and AI: Legal Risk After Meta...more
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
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
The recent ruling in a lawsuit against Anthropic highlights a growing complexity in how courts are approaching fair use in the context of AI training. Judge William Alsup held that developing Anthropic’s Claude model was...more
In recent days, two federal judges in the Northern District of California issued significant decisions covering the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright law. Specifically, in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC and...more
Since generative AI began its rapid ascent in 2022, the creative, tech and legal industries have grappled with a fundamental question: does using copyrighted works to train AI models violate the rights of creators, or does it...more
Two recent summary judgment decisions out of the Northern District of California, issued only two days apart, highlight the complexity of deciding whether the unauthorized use of copyrighted works to train large language...more
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
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...more
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...more
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Bartz et al. v. Anthropic PBC, No. C 24-05417 (N.D. Cal. 2025) - In Bartz et al. v. Anthropic, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California considered whether Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books—many...more
On June 11, 2025, Disney and several affiliated production companies filed a federal lawsuit against Midjourney, Inc., a leading artificial intelligence (AI) image-generation platform. The suit alleges “calculated and...more
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
On June 23, 2025, Senior Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California issued a highly anticipated summary judgment opinion in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC. This is one of the first decisions of many to come dealing...more
Federal courts continue to address whether training artificial intelligence ("AI") models on copyrighted materials without a license constitutes copyright infringement....more
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In one of the first substantive decisions analyzing whether the use of copyrighted works to train large language models (LLMs) for generative artificial intelligence (AI) services is infringing or a fair use, Judge William...more