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, ...

Patreon CEO Jack Conte says AI companies should pay creators for training data, arguing their fair use defense falls apart ...

This is the first time a judge found that an AI company's use of copyrighted material is fair use. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video ...

“Applying the fair use doctrine to generative AI presents novel and complex challenges that stretch the boundaries of traditional copyright analysis.” The advent of generative AI brings to the ...

"Rather than walking through the four-factor fair use analysis for each case, this column will discuss two significant caveats that these decisions have added to the ongoing debate in the courts about ...

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is seeking to immediately appeal a judge's rejection of its fair-use defense to claims that it infringed copyright by downloading pirated books in order to ...

The US Copyright Office's report comes as the agency is under political fire, with President Trump reportedly firing its head this weekend. Katelyn is a writer with ...

A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that training an AI model on copyrighted works without specific permission to do so was not a violation of copyright law. U.S. District Judge William Alsup ...

In order to help train its AI models, Meta (and others) have been using pirated versions of copyrighted books, without the consent of authors or publishers. The company behind Facebook and Instagram ...