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Two Federal Courts Rule That Reproduction of Books to Train LLMs Is Fair Use - But with Caveats and Strikingly Different Views

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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

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The Rook vs. Deschain: Superficial Similarities or Superhero Copycat?

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In the 1970s, William DuBay created the comic book character, Restin Dane, also known by his superhero alter ego, “The Rook.” Dane, a wealthy scientist and inventor residing in an Arizona house shaped like a rook chess piece,...more

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Second Circuit Affirms Fair Use in Google Books Decision

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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that Google's digitization of books for use in its Google Books and Google Books Library Project is not copyright infringement. The Court also ruled that providing a public...more

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