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Recent Decisions from CA and NY On AI Training and Copyright
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In late July, two important decisions came down from courts in the Northern District of California regarding the unauthorized use of copyrighted material for the training of large language models (commonly referred to as AI training).
The two decisions are Judge William Alsup’s opinion in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, No. C 24-05417 WHA, 2025 WL 1741691 (N.D. Cal. June 23, 2025), and Judge Vince Chhabria’s opinion two days later in Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc., No. 23-CV-03417-VC, 2025 WL 1752484 (N.D. Cal. June 25, 2025).
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