Everyone — including lawyers and judges — likes simple legal rules. And the copyright act seems to provide one, with its fair use provision listing four factors. So determining fair use should be as ...

Two judges in the Northern District of California recently issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings regarding whether an artificial intelligence company’s scraping and ingestion of copyrighted ...

For a regularly updated case tracker covering intellectual property and privacy-related lawsuits concerning GenAI (including more decisions addressing fair use), see Generative AI: Federal Litigation ...

“Applying the fair use doctrine to generative AI presents novel and complex challenges that stretch the boundaries of traditional copyright analysis.” The advent of generative AI brings to the ...

As several dozen copyright infringement cases against artificial intelligence (AI) developers continue to proceed through the federal courts, a recent ruling in the District of Delaware suggests that ...

Much of the focus on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has been on training data ingestion—the moment when AI ...

Generative AI has emerged as a transformative force in technology, creating text, art, music and code that can rival human efforts. However, its rise has sparked significant debates around copyright ...

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"Rather than walking through the four-factor fair use analysis for each case, this column will discuss two significant caveats that these decisions have added to the ongoing debate in the courts about ...

Fair use is a legal doctrine that allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission from the rights holders. However, whether a specific use qualifies as fair use depends on several ...