Two judges in the Northern District of California recently issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings regarding whether an artificial intelligence company’s scraping and ingestion of copyrighted ...

A federal district court in San Francisco ruled that training AI models with copyright-protected works is fair use. 1 On June 23, 2025, Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic did not infringe the ...

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, ...

As Leval noted, in the context of fair use, a “transformative”use cannot mean what that term seems to say because “the word ‘transform’ also plays a role in defining ‘derivative works,’ over which the ...

In the context of trademarks, “fair use” is the term given to the use of someone else’s trademark in a way that will not subject the user to liability for infringing the owner’s rights. Fair use is a ...

By Yuanxiao Xu. This post was originally published on Authors Alliance. “One need not be a copyright scholar to evaluate fair use. One need only understand the purpose of copyright. — Leval wins my ...

"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 ...

Copyright laws apply to profit and nonprofit organizations. Although U.S. copyright law specifically cites a nonprofit educational purposes as a primary consideration ...

The Berkman Center at Harvard University is considering a project that we hope will culminate in the widespread circulation of a Statement of Best Practices regarding fair use for teachers and ...

Underlying discussions of fair use of logos are two competing issues: the third party's right to free speech and the cumulative effect on the trademark owner of that third-party's use of elements of ...