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

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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

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

A Temporary Victory: What the New Anthropic and Meta Rulings Actually Reveal About a Fair Use Defense for Companies Accused of...

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Until two weeks ago, no U.S. court had ruled on whether training generative AI models on copyrighted works could constitute a fair use, or if the simple act of training such models without a license would constitute copyright...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

A Tale of Three Cases: How Fair Use Is Playing Out in AI Copyright Lawsuits

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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

Husch Blackwell LLP

Recent Decisions Clarify Fair Use Doctrine in AI Context

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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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Kadrey v. Meta - Fair Use as a Matter of Law

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Kadrey v. Meta! On the merits! A doozy of a summary judgment opinion in form and substance. "The devil is in the details," but even for non-lawyers, at least the first five pages are a must-read - there are almost no legal...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Copywrong: Authors Miss the Mark(et Harm) when Arguing Meta Didn’t Engage in Fair Use

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Weighing in just two days after Judge Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued his fair use summary judgment opinion in Bartz v. Anthropic, Judge Chhabria (also of the Northern District...more

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Court Finds Fair Use for AI Training, But Distinguishes Library of Pirated Works

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In a significant development for the field of artificial intelligence and copyright law, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a ruling in a case brought by a group of authors against AI...more

Venable LLP

Back-to-Back Fair Use Decisions: Two NDCA Courts Find Fair Use for AI Training, Emphasizing That the Specific Facts Concerning...

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In the second landmark decision this week relating to whether use of copyrighted content for training generative AI qualifies as a fair use, Judge Chhabria, in the federal court for the Northern District of California,...more

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Northern District of California Judge Rules That Meta’s Training of AI Models is Fair Use

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Just two days after Judge Alsup issued his fair use decision in Bartz v. Anthropic, Judge Chhabria of the Northern District of California granted summary judgment for Meta Platforms in an AI copyright infringement suit. Judge...more

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In First Major Substantive Decision Addressing GenAI Training Data, Judge Alsup Declares Large Language Models “Among the Most...

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On June 23, 2025, Judge Alsup issued a much-anticipated summary judgment ruling in a copyright case brought by a group of authors seeking to challenge Anthropic’s alleged copying of millions of books in connection with...more

Mintz

Copying Westlaw Headnotes to Train AI Legal Search Competitor Is Not Fair Use, Per District of Delaware

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On February 11, 2025, Third Circuit visiting Judge Stephanos Bibas, sitting by designation on the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, granted summary judgment that Ross Intelligence directly infringed Thomson...more

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Delaware Court Delivers First Copyright Verdict on AI Training

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On February 11, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware became the first to rule on whether the use of copyrighted materials to train an AI system qualifies as copyright infringement. In Thomson-Reuters...more

Mayer Brown

ROSS AI Decision Gives Early Indication of Strengths and Weaknesses of Fair Use Defense

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On Tuesday, a Delaware federal district court granted partial summary judgment to Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH (“Thomson Reuters”) in its copyright litigation against ROSS Intelligence (“ROSS”). The lawsuit, which...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Delaware Court Grants Summary Judgment to Plaintiff in Machine Learning / AI Copyright Case

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Albert Einstein is credited with saying “the measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” In September 2023, Judge Stephanos Bibas—sitting by designation in the District of Delaware—denied plaintiff Thomson Reuters’...more

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Surprise Move: Judge Walks Back AI Copyright Ruling in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS

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Thomson Reuters v. ROSS, 1:20-cv-00613-SB, is the first district court case to address fair use and copyright infringement related to training AI models. Judge Bibas granted summary judgment of no fair use upon a balancing of...more

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