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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

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

Fenwick & West LLP

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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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

BakerHostetler

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

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

D.C. Federal District Court Holds Work Created Entirely by an AI System Cannot Be Copyrighted

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On August 18, 2023, in Thaler v. Perlmutter, Judge Beryl A. Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted the U.S. Copyright Office's motion for summary judgment, affirming the Copyright Office's...more

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