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Comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI back in 2023, alleging pirated versions of their works were used without ...

Fair use is a concept in US copyright law that was created to balance the exclusive rights of copyright owners and the needs of everyday users of copyrighted material. Fair use of copyrighted works, ...

"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 ...

In the battle between copyright owners and generative AI companies, round one went to the AI defendants when two federal courts held that using authors’ works to train large language models ...

“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 ...

Music publishers suing Anthropic for copyright infringement want a summary judgement in their favour, urging the judge to ...

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is seeking to immediately appeal a judge's rejection of its fair-use defense to claims that it infringed copyright by downloading pirated books in order to ...

Country musician Tift Merritt’s most popular song on Spotify, “Traveling Alone,” is a ballad with lyrics evoking solitude and the open road. Prompted by Reuters to make “an Americana song in the style ...

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