JD Supra

Back-to-Back Fair Use Decisions: Two NDCA Courts Find Fair Use for AI Training, Emphasizing That the Specific Facts Concerning Alleged Market Harm Will Be Critical in ...

In the second landmark decision this week relating to whether use of copyrighted content for training generative AI qualifies as a fair use, Judge Chhabria, in the federal court for the Northern ...
Yahoo

Andy Warhol Ruling Limits Fair Use for Copyrighted Images, With Far-Reaching Hollywood Implications

Andy Warhol wasn’t allowed to use a photographer’s portrait of Prince for a series of pop-art images, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a decision limiting the reach of the fair use defense to ...
Forbes

The Supremes Transform The Fair Use Transformative Defense In Case Involving Andy Warhol Modification Of Photograph Of Prince

Would the Photographer of Marilyn have the Same Claim? Would Marilyn's Estate have the same claim? The Supreme Court recently issued its decision on the application of the fair use defense to Andy ...
JD Supra

Copyright Fair Use Examples

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.
IPWatchdog

Dissent Says SCOTUS Ruling Against Warhol Foundation on Fair Use Will ‘Stifle Creativity’

“If Warhol does not get credit for transformative copying, who will? [The decision] will stifle creativity of every sort. It will impede new art and music and literature. It will thwart the expression ...
Law

AI and the Fair Use Defense: Lessons from Two Recent Summary Judgment Rulings

Two judges in the Northern District of California recently issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings regarding whether an artificial intelligence company’s scraping and ingestion of copyrighted ...
Reason

Supreme Court: Andy Warhol's Prince Prints Not 'Transformative' Enough for Fair Use

The Supreme Court ruled this week on Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, and the decision could have a transformative effect on copyright law. The ruling was so heated, it ...
IPWatchdog

Revised Fair Use Ruling Finds No Transformative Use in Developing AI Search Tool

“Wisdom does not always find me, so I try to embrace it when it does–even if it comes late, as it did here.” Judge Stephanos Bibas Yesterday, Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas, sitting by designation in ...
Law

Fair Use and AI Training: Two New Developments

"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 ...
Wired

The Andy Warhol Copyright Case That Could Transform Generative AI

Andy Warhol probably never said that thing about everyone in the future getting their 15 minutes of fame. It might have been Swedish art collector Pontus Hultén. Or painter Larry Rivers. Or ...
Ars Technica

Key fair use ruling clarifies when books can be used for AI training

Artificial intelligence companies don’t need permission from authors to train their large language models (LLMs) on legally acquired books, US District Judge William Alsup ruled Monday. The ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Andy Warhol Ruling Limits Fair Use for Copyrighted Images, With Far-Reaching Hollywood Implications

The justices answered whether the artist's use of a photograph of Prince to create a new work constitutes copyright infringement. By Winston Cho Andy Warhol wasn’t allowed to use a photographer’s ...