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What comes next for AI copyright lawsuits?
- In June 2025, federal judges determined that Anthropic and Meta’s use of specific literary works for developing their AI language models constituted fair use and did not violate copyright laws.
- These decisions occurred amidst multiple ongoing copyright lawsuits targeting leading AI firms such as Anthropic, Meta, Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft, with plaintiffs ranging from individual creators to prominent organizations including Getty Images and The New York Times.
- Judge Alsup highlighted the transformative nature of AI training, while Judge Chhabria focused on market harm and ruled for Meta since plaintiffs failed to prove significant damage.
- The ruling affected only 13 authors and does not establish that Meta's use of copyrighted materials is lawful, leaving uncertainty about future court outcomes and potential industry changes.
- These decisions may require AI companies to seek new licensing deals or training methods, significantly influencing AI development and prompting content providers to demand compensation.
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Hollywood Takes On AI Copyright Rules In Washington
America’s creators are mounting a campaign to push back on any use of their work without permission or compensation, seeking to head off potential abuses of their intellectual property. – The Wall Street Journal
Trump AI Czar David Sacks Staves Off Left’s AI Copyright Gambit
Trump AI Czar David Sacks Staves Off Left’s AI Copyright Gambit The legacy media is pushing artificial intelligence (AI) companies into so-called licensing agreements, allowing the left to control what Americans hear from chatbots. David Sacks, President Donald Trump’s AI czar, isn’t going to stand for it. Sacks pushed back against lawsuits from authors targeting AI firms like Anthropic and Meta, noting how badly this will handicap American A…
Two court rulings in California agree with Meta and Anthropic: They can continue to train their language models with copyrighted texts – even without the authors' consent.
What comes next for AI copyright lawsuits?
Last week, the technology companies Anthropic and Meta each won landmark victories in two separate court cases that examined whether or not the firms had violated copyright when they trained their large language models on copyrighted books without permission. The rulings are the first we’ve seen to come out of copyright cases of this kind. This is a big deal! The use of copyrighted works to train models is at the heart of a bitter battle between…
Meta trains its AI on copyrighted books – and according to American courts, this may be legal. Among the pirated books are works by many Uppsala authors. – Of course, that is completely wrong. It is we authors who have the copyright, not Meta, says author Carina Burman.
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