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Generative AI: the US class action against Google Bard (and other AI tools) for web scraping

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The defendants’ wholesale collection and use of copyrighted material, with no option for copyright owners to opt out, would exceed the legal interpretation of “fair use” (see VHT vs Zillow Group , 918 F.3d 2000) (“ copying an entire work militates against a finding of fair use. ”). 4th 1149 (9th Cir.

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‘Google Zero’: Incentives & Remuneration in a New Era of ‘Agentic’ Copyright

Kluwer Copyright Blog

courts indicate, one of the crucial issues is whether online content and information, often behind paywalls or otherwise protected by IP, can be used to train large language models (LLMs) and whether AI companies can rely on the fair use doctrine. As dozens of copyright lawsuits filed in U.S.

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