We recently discussed the legal developments related to fair use in AI training. Through a bipartisan bill titled the AI ...

The past few weeks have seen a flurry of activity in the legislature and the courts relating to Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). Since ...

The court also held that Anthropic’s digital conversion of purchased print books to build its digital library was fair use but that its downloading of pirated copies for this purpose was not ...

This is bad news for artists and media companies that want a say in how AI companies use their intellectual property.

The lawsuit centers on Anthropic’s use of books to train its LLM, Claude, and could leave the company on the hook for ...

If passed into law, the AI Accountability and Personal Data Protection Act [PDF] from Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Richard ...

Andrew Coffman of Phelps Dunbar. Courtesy photo The largest copyright dispute in history may be whether training generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) models is copyright fair use.

The 108-page report deals primarily with copyright concerns around the training of AI models -- specifically, whether AI companies have legal footing to ask for a fair-use exception, which would ...

U.S. District Judge William Alsup said that AI company Anthropic could assert a “fair use” defense against copyright claims for training its Claude AI models on copyrighted books.

The fair use doctrine is a fundamental part of US copyright law that allows people to use copyrighted work without the rights holders' explicit permission, like in education and journalism.

Fair use could be the deciding legal question in copyright cases brought by authors, artists, news outlets and others against major technology companies over their AI training.