The week of June 23, 2025 saw a flurry of high-impact decisions concerning copyright and artificial intelligence (AI). Two judges in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued substantive decisions regarding fair use and generative AI model training. Both courts found fair use and that using copyrighted works to train large
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DC Circuit Holds That AI Systems Are Not “Authors” for Purposes of Copyright
As generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities advance, courts and the U.S. Copyright Office have grappled with the issue of who, or what—if anyone—owns the copyrights in works generated by AI systems. Fundamental questions have focused on whether copyright requires human authorship and, if so, whether works created solely through the use of AI possess sufficient…
Thomson Reuters Enter. Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence Inc.
On February 11, 2025, the U.S. district court for the District of Delaware revised its own 2023 opinion and found on summary judgment that ROSS Intelligence’s (“Ross”) use of certain Westlaw “headnotes” to develop Ross’s AI-powered legal research tool constituted copyright infringement and not fair use. The court granted most of copyright owner Thomson Reuters’…
Courts and Legislators Addressing the Right of Publicity in the Age of AI
The creative promise of generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI or “AI”) is tremendous. Irrespective of artistic talent, any user can enter a text prompt into an AI tool and generate a new visual or audio work. Such AI tools also allow for the creation of outputs that impersonate the voice, image, or other likeness of individuals.…