IIPRD

JANUARY 22, 2025

One such legal issues is what is referred to as “fair use,” which becomes particularly problematic in the context of the copyright law. Thus, fundamental questions arise, such as whether such copying amounts to infringement under copyright law or whether it falls under the purview of fair use. Google, Inc.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The Copyright Claims Board has ruled in favor of two podcasters in a bitter battle over fair use and a TikTok video. The post Do We Know Them Podcasters Win Fair Use CCB Case appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Scanning books to create a searchable database of books constitutes fair use. Will scanning images (or other copyright-protected content) to create a generative AI model for use in creating images be deemed fair use? Scanning books to create eBooks does not. In Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., (the Google, Inc., (the

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

A federal district court in Delaware has issued the first AI copyright fair use decision on the merits, granting partial summary judgment for copyright owner Thomson Reuters on copyright infringement and rejecting defendant Ross Intelligences fair use defense.

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Creative Law Center

APRIL 10, 2021

Fair use guidelines are evolving. The post New Fair Use Guidelines: the Defense Narrows appeared first on Creative Law Center. You can't just slap your style on someone else's creative work and call it transformative.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

that the defendants unauthorized use of the plaintiffs copyrighted materials to train its legal research AI tool was not fair use. This ruling is the first reported case to address whether the use of copyrighted training data for AI training constitutes fair use. ROSS Intelligence Inc.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Ross Intelligence will get plenty of second looks from courts deciding fair use in generative AI copyright cases. Those were some of the phrases legal commentators used to describe Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith in the days following the Supreme Courts 2023 landmark fair use decision.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Fair Use is one of the principles being mooted in defense of OpenAI to argue that the latters Use of the formers copyrighted content fits within Fair Use thresholds and is, thereby, justifiable. 2015), also known as the Google Books Case. [2]

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In one of the most closely-watched copyright cases this year, a Delaware court rejected defendant, ROSS Intelligences (ROSS), fair use and other defenses by vacating its previous stance and granting summary judgement in favor of plaintiff, Thomson Reuters (Reuters).

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Barry Sookman

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

11, 2025) examined three essential questions, 1) were the Westlaw headnotes and key number system taxonomy protected by copyright, 2) did Rosss copying of the headnotes to create legal memos used to train Rosss AI system infringe copyright, subject to the defense of fair use, and 3) was Ross copying fair use.…

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

a first-of-its-kind decision addressing whether fair use is. Its not common for a federal judge to make such an admission, but that is exactly what Judge Bibas of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware did in his recent opinion in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GMBH v. Ross Intelligence Inc.,

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The first 24 hours of punditry on Judge Stephanos Bibass summary judgment of no fair use in Thomson Reuters v. has largely oscillated between predictions that the decision destroys fair use defenses in the pending generative AI copyright litigations, or that the decision is entirely irrelevant to those cases.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

1:20-cv-613, potentially shaping how future courts will analyze transformative use and intermediate copying of copyrighted works used to train artificial intelligence models. On Tuesday, February 11, a Delaware district court issued much-awaited summary-judgment decisions in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In rejecting an AI company's fair use defense for using Thomson Reuters' Westlaw headnotes to train its competing legal tool, Judge Bilas, the District of Delaware judge in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GMBH and West Publishing Corp. Ross Intelligence Inc.,

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

Photo: Author A couple of recent cases in the US involving (mis)appropriation of copyrighted photographs indicate the tide may be changing with respect to the interpretation of what constitutes fair use, moving from a very liberal interpretation of “transformation” that has been used in recent years to justify unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted (..)

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The Illusion of More

JANUARY 15, 2024

When these headlines are paired with the rampant assertions that ML is inherently fair […] The post “Fair Use” is Not a Great Business Plan appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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Copyright Alliance

MAY 19, 2023

Yesterday, the Supreme Court, in a 7-2 opinion written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, found that the purpose and character of the Andy Warhol Foundation’s (AWF) use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photograph […] The post Landmark Warhol Decision Reins in Transformative Fair Use appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Fair use a critical defense in copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission has emerged as a key battleground in the wave of artificial intelligence (AI) copyright litigation.

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The Illusion of More

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Goldsmith restored what many of us view as common sense to the fair use doctrine of transformativeness, the flurry of litigation against AI developers will test the same principle in a different light.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 27, 2024

There are also grave concerns that proposed “fair use” exceptions, which are partly modeled after U.S. South Africa Defends Broad Fair Use Exceptions This week, the Government sent a response to the USTR addressing IIPA’s critique. to use it as a basis for sanctions.

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Likelihood of Confusion

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Walter Olson rounds it up: Ralph Lauren lawyers: dont you dare reproduce our skinny-model photo in the course of criticizing our use of skinny models [BoingBoing] With photoshop, evidently, quite a bit! Here’s an excerpt from […] The post The skinny on fair use appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION.

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The Illusion of More

JULY 11, 2024

In February 2023, I argued that using copyrighted works for the purpose of training generative artificial intelligence (GAI) products is not fair use.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

Fair use provides some exceptions to copyright protection, allowing limited use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner. Understanding legal and fair use is especially important in academic settings because dissemination of information often requires the use of evidence.

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Copyright Alliance

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

District Court of Delaware issued an opinion in a long-running AI copyright infringement case, rejecting the defendants fair use defense and finding […] The post First of Its Kind Decision Finds AI Training Is Not Fair Use appeared first on Copyright Alliance. On February 11, a judge in the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Mass Copyright Infringement or Fair Use? The Internet Archive wholeheartedly disagreed with the copyright infringement allegations; it offers a vital service to the public, the Archive said, as it built its legal defense on protected fair use. The library argues that the court erred by rejecting its fair use defense.

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The Illusion of More

JANUARY 26, 2024

Yesterday, New York federal judge Sidney Stein ruled that Richard Prince, one of the most famous appropriation artists in the world, infringed the copyright rights of photographers Donald Graham and Eric McNatt by using their works in the controversial “New Portraits” series.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

That was perceived as an attempt to bring the matter to an end but on unacceptable terms; no recognition of Parrish’s right to use the material under the doctrine of fair use and a potentially devastating effect on raising awareness and future criticism of the religious group. Factors of Fair Use A.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 19, 2024

A New York federal judge said Monday that the fair use exception to copyright law is fatal to former U.S. George Santos' suit against ABC and Jimmy Kimmel over video clips that the late-night TV show host tricked the ex-congressman into making.

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Creative Law Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

A federal court has ruled that using copyrighted material to train AI models does not qualify as fair use. The post Court Rejects Fair Use for AI Training appeared first on Creative Law Center. But the story is not over.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In a ruling that’s being hailed as a win for fair use, a federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit brought by disgraced ex-congressman George Santos against late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel, in Santos v. Kimmel, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., and Walt Disney Company, 1:24-cv-01210, in the Southern District of New York.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Copyright Claims Board has handed three more determinations, including one fair use issue and two questions on damages. The post 3 New Copyright Claims Board Decisions appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As often is the case with claims like these, the merits will center on the fair-use doctrine, a well-recognized legal principle in copyright law that aims to balance the interests of copyright holders with the public benefit of free speech and creative works.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 13, 2024

The case, filed in January in New York federal court by photographer Allen Kee, claims that the defendants violated his copyright by using his photo of Sanders in action during a 1995 game as the model for the pose in the statue. The case explores the intersection of the “fair use” doctrine for both sculptors.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 20, 2025

Crucially, however, Meta denied the copyright infringement allegations, noting that it would rely on a fair use defense, at least in part. To the extent that Meta made any unauthorized copies of any Plaintiffs registered copyrighted works, such copies constitute fair use under 17 U.S.C.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Anthropic PBC will mount a fair use defense against allegations from a proposed class of authors and journalists who sued the artificial intelligence company in August for allegedly ripping off their copyrighted work to train its large language model Claude.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

A Delaware federal court's recent decision in Thomson Reuters v.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Ross Intelligenceon February 11, 2025, providing clarity on an often-asked question: is the utilization of copyrighted subject matter covered by the fair use doctrine as an affirmative defense? District Court for the District of Delaware delivered a watershed ruling inThomson Reuters v. By: Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

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