The copyright for the original versions of Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse have expired. Now, members of the public can create—and are busy creating—their own works based on these beloved characters.
A US federal judge on July 20, 2026, approved Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright lawsuit brought by authors who accused the AI startup of using pirated books to train its Claude models ...
The decision in Teradyne v. Astronics illustrates the potential strength of the fair use defense in software cases, even in those involving direct competitors. Last month, in an unpublished memorandum ...
The US Copyright Office's report comes as the agency is under political fire, with President Trump reportedly firing its head this weekend. If you’ve been hoping ...
Aditya Ezhuthachan is an attorney focused on entertainment law with Beverly Hills-based Pessah Law Group. In this column, he addresses The post Fair Use: When You Can and Can’t Use Someone Else’s Work ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Daniela Amodei, cofounder and president of Anthropic, and Dario Amodei, the company’s cofounder and CEO. (David Paul ...
A judge’s decision that Anthropic‘s use of copyrighted books to train its AI models is a “fair use” is likely only the start of lengthy litigation to resolve one of the most hotly contested questions ...
Generative AI has revolutionized digital content creation; however, it has also sparked one of the biggest copyright debates in technology. Courts across the US ...
Copyrighted books can be used to train artificial intelligence models without authors’ consent, a federal judge ruled Monday. The decision marked a major victory ...
The day after The New York Times sued OpenAI for copyright infringement, the author and systems architect Daniel Jeffries wrote an essay-length tweet arguing that the Times “has a near zero ...
Suno and Udio say their training methods fall under fair use and accuse major record labels of stifling industry competition. Suno and Udio say their training methods fall under fair use and accuse ...
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 ...