Anthropic and Meta fair use rulings on AI model training

America’s frontier artificial intelligence (AI) labs have faced years of copyright litigation over their ingestion of books, news, and other expressive works. Yet, until this week, no US court had squarely applied the four statutory fair use factors to the merits of those claims. That changed when two US District Court for the Northern District of California judges issued detailed summary judgment opinions addressing how much latitude copyright law gives developers who copy entire books to train…
By: McDermott Will & Emery