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, ...

AI copyright fair use ruling: The Trump DOJ filed a brief on September 1, 2026, backing OpenAI and declaring LLM training on copyrighted works is fair use. The non-binding statement of interest ...

The US Copyright Office's report comes as the agency is under political fire, with President Trump reportedly firing its head this weekend. If you’ve been hoping ...

AI innovators and U.S. copyright law are on a collision course, with neither side finding satisfactory technological or legal solutions to enable AI-generated products to move forward. Major software ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Intellectual Property attorney helping artists tell their stories through film and media. The use of AI systems has become part of ...

“The fair use doctrine is every bit as relevant in the digital domain as it has been for almost two centuries in the print environment,” said Jaszi. “Here we see again the strong connection between ...

In one of the first substantive decisions analyzing whether the use of copyrighted works to train large language models (LLMs) for generative artificial intelligence (AI) services is infringing or a ...

Last week saw two landmark fair use decisions on artificial intelligence from the Northern District of California: Judge William Alsup’s decision in Bartz v. Anthropic and Judge Vince Chhabria’s ...

A US federal district judge is questioning Meta’s ‘copyright fair use’ defense for materials used to train its AI. The judge is hearing arguments related to the case comedian Sarah Silverman and two ...

“In the Office’s view, training a generative AI foundation model on a large and diverse dataset will often be transformative.” – U.S. Copyright Office The ...

Music publisher Round Hill sued Suno and Anthropic for copyright infringement, alleging illegal scraping of music and arguing the companies cannot claim fair use.

Fair use is a powerful shield in the chaotic world of YouTube copyright. It allows creators to use parts of copyrighted material, like movie clips or soundtracks, without permission in certain ...