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Meta Gets Victory In Significant AI Copyright Case, But Ruling Limited Image

Meta Gets Victory In Significant AI Copyright Case, But Ruling Limited

Michael Gennaro

A federal judge handed Meta a major win on June 24 in a closely watched copyright case over its use of books to train large language models, but the ruling stopped well short of giving tech companies blanket protection to scrape creative works for artificial intelligence.

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Ruling in Authors’ AI Suit Lays Out Cautionary Guidelines for Plaintiffs’ Lawyers in Similar Cases Image

Ruling in Authors’ AI Suit Lays Out Cautionary Guidelines for Plaintiffs’ Lawyers in Similar Cases

Michael Gennaro

A federal judge handed Meta a major win in a closely watched copyright case over the use of books to train large language models (LLMs). But the ruling stopped well short of giving tech companies blanket protection to scrape creative works for artificial intelligence.

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Second Circuit Ruling on Copyright Fair Use Defense and Infringement Lawsuit Default Judgments Image

Second Circuit Ruling on Copyright Fair Use Defense and Infringement Lawsuit Default Judgments

Stan Soocher

In copyright litigation, an infringement defendant may claim fair use as an affirmative defense. But the Second Circuit recently ruled that a district court, on its own initiative, could raise a fair use defense for a defendant that hadn’t appeared in the case.

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ChatGPT’s Ghibli-Style Images Are Testing Copyright Law Image

ChatGPT’s Ghibli-Style Images Are Testing Copyright Law

Saishruti Mutneja & Raghav Gurbaxani

Last month, a flood of whimsical, dreamlike portraits in the style of Studio Ghibli (the Japanese animation studio) swept across social media. What began as a playful social trend quickly raised legal concerns. Within days, users began reporting that OpenAI had restricted prompts referencing specific artistic styles. This trend offers a live case study of how generative AI may implicate core doctrines of copyright law, including derivative works, substantial similarity, and fair use.

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AI-Training Ruling Finds No Fair Use Image

AI-Training Ruling Finds No Fair Use

Mason Lawlor

A recent AI copyright ruling out of federal court could have a sprawling impact on how companies, both big and small, use the technology responsibly.

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Internet Archive’s Decision Not to Appeal Second Circuit’s Fair Use Ruling Could Lead to More Litigation As Issue Remains Unsettled Image

Internet Archive’s Decision Not to Appeal Second Circuit’s Fair Use Ruling Could Lead to More Litigation As Issue Remains Unsettled

Catherine Nyarady & Crystal Parker

The Second Circuit’s decision may have significant downstream implications for other digital lending services, making it more difficult to operate absent licensing agreements with copyright holders of the various works they seek to distribute. With Internet Archive deciding against petitioning the Supreme Court, we may well see similar litigation pop up in other jurisdictions outside the Second Circuit until the issue is more widely settled.

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Artists Release Silent Album to Protest Change In UK Copyright Law Image

Artists Release Silent Album to Protest Change In UK Copyright Law

Steve Salkin

More than 1,000 artists are credited on a “silent” record released on February 25 in protest over changes that the UK government is considering to its copyright law, changes which critics say will make it easier for AI models to use copyrighted material without securing a license.

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IP News Image

IP News

Jeff Ginsberg & George Soussou

Federal Circuit: PTAB Jurisdiction Exists Over Expired PatentsFederal Circuit: No Estoppel on Unadjudicated Claims

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Amazon-Backed AI Company Agrees to ‘Guardrails’ On Using Copyrighted Lyrics to Train Claude AI Product Image

Amazon-Backed AI Company Agrees to ‘Guardrails’ On Using Copyrighted Lyrics to Train Claude AI Product

Michelle Morgante

Music publishers have reached a partial agreement with Anthropic that requires the Amazon-backed artificial intelligence company to implement “guardrails” around its use of copyrighted song lyrics to train its flagship product, Claude.

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Copyright Cases Roundup Image

Copyright Cases Roundup

Stan Soocher

A roundup of recent cases in entertainment-related copyrights.

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