Access to diverse materials for Large Language Models (LLMs, AI) raises legal questions on fair use and copyright ...

Fair use is the legal principle aimed at promoting freedom of expression by allowing the use of copyrighted material for purposes such as critiques, reviews, teaching and news reporting.

On March 7, 1994, the U.S. Supreme Court decided for the first time that a parody may be a copyright fair use. In the 25 years that followed, the High Court’s unanimous 9-0 ruling in Campbell v ...

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.

Accordingly, U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner was unpersuaded by Axanar’s arguments that it was entitled to use the fair use defence and ordered that the copyright lawsuit should move forward.

Most copyright laws, including the U.S. fair use doctrine, were written before the internet, let alone generative AI, became part of daily life. This ruling may accelerate a push toward clearer ...

While the startup has won its “fair use” argument, it potentially faces billions of dollars in damages for allegedly pirating over 7 million books to build a digital library.

OpenAI's defense primarily hinges on courts agreeing that copying authors' works to train AI is a transformative fair use that benefits the public, but the judge in the NYT case, Ona Wang ...

Understanding How LLMs Operate AI is a great example of this relationship. GenAI systems use copies of content like books and articles, many of which are protected by copyright, for training their ...

Most copyright laws, including the U.S. fair use doctrine, were written before the internet, let alone generative AI, became part of daily life.