All blogs by Rachel Kim

Analogizing AI processes to human processes may be helpful as a simplistic way to explain how certain aspects of AI work. However, relying on these analogies as a substitute for actual legal and policy analysis can lead to erroneous blurring of lines, resulting in poorly conceived laws and policies, which prioritize AI over humans and […]

On July 16, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism held a hearing titled Too Big to Prosecute?: Examining the AI Industry’s Mass Ingestion of Copyrighted Works for AI Training. While some courts may struggle to articulate why these pervasive pirating activities of AI companies seem so disturbing—Senators on the Subcommittee took charge […]

In June, courts were extremely busy with AI and copyright activities. Two judges issued mixed-bag decisions in AI copyright cases squarely addressing the issue of whether the unlicensed use of copyrighted works to train generative AI systems qualified for the fair use exception. Here is a quick snapshot of the top noteworthy copyright news stories […]

Earlier this month, the U.S. Copyright Office released the third of four reports in its study for Congress on copyright and AI. There is little doubt that this third report is the most important and consequential to copyright and AI stakeholders because it addresses issues relating to training of AI systems on copyrighted works and […]

In April, the Copyright Alliance and Association of American Publishers (AAP) held an all-day event on the importance of human creativity in the age of artificial intelligence and we joined the rest of the creative community celebrating World IP Day 2025, by highlighting the important role that music plays in our society and how copyright […]

In March, the Copyright Office launched its study of the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) while in the courts, key copyright and AI cases continued to move forward. Here is a quick snapshot of some of copyright-related activities that occurred during the month of March as well as a few events to look forward to in […]

Over the past several weeks and months, we have posted several blogs that underscore the angry response by U.S.-based creators, creative industries, and others to AI companies’ ingestion of copyrighted works to train their AI systems without getting permission or compensating the copyright owners of those works. In these blogs we have highlighted various copyright […]

In February, several very significant developments unfolded in the courts with news publishers filing an AI copyright infringement suit and a court rejecting an AI company’s argument that their copying of copyrighted works for training purposes was a fair use. Meanwhile, the UK creative community was in an uproar over the UK Government’s proposal for […]

Recently, the Government of the United Kingdom closed the comment period for its Copyright and AI Consultation, during which it proposed an unwarranted AI copyright exception (yet again). The proposal is problematic for a host of reasons (which you can read about in the Copyright Alliance’s submission). But one particularly problematic characterization stemmed from the […]

2025 started with a flurry of copyright-related activities, setting the tone for what may be a very active year ahead in the copyright world. Among other events, the U.S. Copyright Office published a new report in its AI Study and members of Congress introduced several copyright-related bills. Here is a quick snapshot of some of […]