Technology Sector, Transformative Use

Anthropic’s Great Book Heist: Do the Ends Justify the Means When It Comes to Training AI?

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on 8/27/2025

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

(Podcast) The Briefing: Anthropic, Copyright, and the Fair Use Divide

Weintraub Tobin on 7/18/2025

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

The Briefing: Anthropic, Copyright, and the Fair Use Divide

Weintraub Tobin on 7/18/2025

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

Federal Courts Find Fair Use in AI Training: Key Takeaways from Kadrey v. Meta and Bartz v. Anthropic

Jackson Walker on 7/14/2025

In recent days, two federal judges in the Northern District of California issued significant decisions covering the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright law. Specifically, in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC and...more

Open Books, Narrow Rulings: The Northern District of California Grants AI Companies a Limited Fair Use Victory

Sullivan & Worcester on 7/14/2025

Since generative AI began its rapid ascent in 2022, the creative, tech and legal industries have grappled with a fundamental question: does using copyrighted works to train AI models violate the rights of creators, or does it...more

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

Venable LLP on 6/27/2025

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

All Is Fair In Google And Oracle: Supreme Court Says Google’s Copying Was Fair Use In Landmark Copyright Case

McCarter & English, LLP on 4/6/2021

Was it fair for Google to copy 11,500 lines of Oracle’s copyrighted Java Application Programming Interface (API) simply to make it easier for programmers already familiar with Java to develop apps for Google’s Android...more

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