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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

Perkins Coie

Court Sides With Meta on Fair Use and DMCA Questions, but Leaves Door Open for Future Challenges

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Key Takeaways - Judge Chhabria recently granted summary judgment for Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta) in two key rulings finding that: - Meta's use of copyrighted books to train LLMs is fair use due to its highly...more

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Two California District Judges Rule That Using Books to Train AI is Fair Use

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Two days apart, two judges in the Northern District of California decided on summary judgment that two examples of using copyrighted works to train AI models were transformative, and ultimately fair use under US copyright...more

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Use of Copyrighted Works for AI Training Purposes is Exceedingly, Spectacularly, and Quintessentially Transformative

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On June 23, 2025, the Northern District of California federal district court issued the first substantive district court decision regarding the intersection of copyright law and generative artificial intelligence. The case...more

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Fair Use Defense Failed in Thomson Reuters v. Ross, Jury Still out for Generative AI

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The first substantive decision on the fair use defense in an artificial intelligence (AI) copyright case came down against the defendant, who used AI to create a competing product. However, as the decision expressly limited...more

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The New York Times Calls Out OpenAI on Its Motion to Dismiss

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Responding to the OpenAI brief that read more like a press release than a traditional motion to dismiss, the New York Times attacked OpenAI's approach from the very first sentence, calling the factual background of OpenAI's...more

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Fair Use Question Goes to Trial in AI Copyright Lawsuit – Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence

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On September 25, 2023, a United States Circuit Judge determined that fact questions surrounding issues of fair use and tortious interference required a jury to decide media conglomerate Thomson Reuters’s lawsuit against Ross...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

AI Insights: In AI Training Case Brought by Thomson Reuters, Court Denies Summary Judgment

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In AI Training Case Brought by Thomson Reuters, Court Denies Summary Judgment - In Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence, a district court largely denied the parties’ cross motions for summary judgment and held that a...more

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Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence: D. Del. SJ Decision Provides Insight as Copyright Litigation Tests the Legality of...

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Generative AI has taken the world by storm since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022. But the buzz and excitement of GAI has come with difficult legal questions that threaten the new technology. Several lawsuits—some of...more

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