Policy

After being dormant for much of the year, Congress was very busy on copyright issues in July—introducing copyright-related legislation and holding a hearing on AI and copyright piracy issues. There […]

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) technologies are improving and providing more generative capabilities at a rapid pace. Their continued development will depend on the viability of burgeoning markets in which copyright […]

In late June, summary judgment orders were issued in two Northern District of California cases—Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta—that sent shockwaves through the copyright and AI communities. In […]

Interregnum: A disruption of the regular order, esp. of government The U.S. Copyright Office is sometimes described as a “hybrid” entity. As a department of the Library of Congress it […]

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 […]

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 […]

Over the past few years, we have seen the number of AI training copyright infringement/fair use court cases steadily climb and waited with great anticipation for the day when decisions […]

That heat wave we recently experienced in DC was brutal—it seems like it’s all everyone was talking about (besides the so-called One Big, Beautiful Bill). But the weather was not […]

Since Judge Chhabria of the Northern District of California issued his decision in the Kadrey v. Meta case on Wednesday, June 25, there have been a lot of articles about […]

On June 23, a district court in the Northern District of California issued an order on summary judgment in Bartz v. Anthropic, addressing fair use as it relates to both […]