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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

Irwin IP LLP

2025 Mid-Year Report - Top Ten Intellectual Property Cases Of 2025 (So Far)

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We have passed the midpoint of 2025, and the landscape of intellectual property law continues to evolve at a rapid pace, shaped by emerging technologies, and shifting judicial interpretations. From pivotal Supreme Court...more

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Intellectual Property Report September 2025

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The landscape of legal practice has significantly changed due to the proliferation of third-party litigation funding, a financial mechanism that provides capital to plaintiffs, including patent owners, in exchange for an...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

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

Newsrooms vs. Neural Nets: How Courts Are Handling DMCA Claims Against GenAI

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a 30-year-old tool enacted to address the copyright implications of disrupting technologies, like Napster and Limewire, in the late 1990s, has found new utility in the age of AI....more

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

U.S. IP Update – August 2025

Sterne Kessler’s U.S. IP Update is a newsletter delivering the latest developments in U.S. intellectual property law, tailored for companies and legal counsel in Korea. Stay informed on key court decisions, policy changes,...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

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

Kilpatrick

5 Key Takeaways | Part One: From Copyright to Patents: Global IP and Legal Issues in GenAI Innovations

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Kilpatrick’s Joe Petersen, a partner with more than two decades of experience representing a broad array of clients in litigation, arbitration, and administrative proceedings involving copyright and trademark law, recently...more

J.S. Held

The Growing Importance of the Chief Intellectual Property Officer: A Strategic Imperative for the Knowledge Economy

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Discussion in the corporate boardroom is evolving rapidly. As the global economy has fundamentally shifted from one driven by tangible assets to one powered by intangible value, a new C-suite position has earned a seat at the...more

Knobbe Martens

[Webinar] Fair Use and Generative AI – What the Meta and Anthropic Cases Mean for Your Business - August 19th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm...

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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

Offit Kurman

Voice Actors Clear Early Legal Hurdle in AI Cloning Suit

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Voice actors received a rare, if incomplete, victory against alleged AI infringers in a recent opinion from an SDNY judge in Lehrman v. Lovo, Inc. Voice actors Paul Lehrman and Linnea Sage filed an action against AI...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

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Intellectual Property Report August 2025

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Key Takeaway: When facing a patent infringement suit, accused infringers traditionally turned to inter partes review (IPR) as a faster, more cost-effective alternative to district court litigation. However, recent guidance...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

King & Spalding

“One Big Beautiful Bill Act”

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On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law H.R. 1, "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (the “Act” or “OBBBA”) a comprehensive bill that combines many of the President’s major policy initiatives he had promised during his...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

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

Weintraub Tobin

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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