1. Dr. Suess vs. ComicMix, LLC (Oh, the places you will boldly go). Dr. Suess/Star Trek mashup. Problems: Copied highly creative style, did not make parody (no critique commentary), trading off Dr.

"Fair use," originally a judge-made doctrine, is a statutory defense to copyright infringement. The test for "fair use," articulated in Section 107 of the Copyright ...

OpenAI keeps deleting data that could allegedly prove the AI company violated copyright laws by training ChatGPT on authors’ works. Apparently largely unintentional, the sloppy practice is seemingly ...

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Some artificial intelligence companies have argued the fair use doctrine in intellectual property law allows them to train generative AI models on news content and other copyrighted material.

Ultimately, the courts (and presumably the U.S. Supreme Court) will decide the issue of fair use. However, others have the ability to create or influence policy. The firings, for example, may mean ...

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Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted material for training was fair use. His decision carries weight.

Purpose and character. These are now solidly enshrined as the buzzwords of copyright law on the heels of the Supreme Court’s 7-2 ruling earlier this week in the case involving the estate of Andy ...

Two California district court judges recently issued competing rulings pertaining to fair use as a defense against the alleged improper use of copyrighted works to train large language models (LLMs).

OpenAI argues it needs access to ‘avoid forfeiting’ the lead in AI to China. OpenAI argues it needs access to ‘avoid forfeiting’ the lead in AI to China. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars ...