Fair use
2 entries between December 2023 and June 2025, 1 turning point.
Turning points
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Two federal judges rule AI training on books can be fair use
Judge William Alsup ruled on 23 June 2025 that training a language model on books was transformative fair use, while sending Anthropic’s acquisition of more than seven million pirated books to trial. Judge Vince Chhabria issued a narrower fair-use ruling for Meta two days later.
Every entry
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Two federal judges rule AI training on books can be fair use
Judge William Alsup ruled on 23 June 2025 that training a language model on books was transformative fair use, while sending Anthropic’s acquisition of more than seven million pirated books to trial. Judge Vince Chhabria issued a narrower fair-use ruling for Meta two days later.
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The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright
The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft on 27 December 2023 in the Southern District of New York, case 1:23-cv-11195, alleging they trained models on millions of its articles without permission and that ChatGPT and Copilot could reproduce its reporting.