This week, we learned that Anthropic will not let Claude be used for domestic surveillance. The Internet Archive has reached a confidential settlement in its copyright lawsuit over the Great 78’s collection. Finally, I liked Professor Guadamuz’s musings on the future of AI and Copyright. Anthropic’s Permitted Uses for AI Internet Archive Settles Copyright Case…
Category: Fair Use
Links for Week of June 27, 2025
This week, Anthropic’s use of copyrighted works to train its Claude AI model was ruled a fair use. Further, the court documents revealed that they destroyed millions of books to do so. In another fair use case, this time with Meta, Llama’s use of copyrighted works was adjudged to be fair use. However, it may…
Links for Week of May 30, 2025
This week, I liked Tori Noble, Mitch Stoltz, and Corynne McSherry’s article at Techdirt analyzing the Copyright Office’s recent guidance on fair use and AI. The FTC’s monopoly trial against Meta ended this week, with a ruling expected by the end of the year. Finally, Getty Images reported that it is too expensive to pursue…
Links for Week of March 14, 2025
Next week, I’m speaking to the Advocates Society on “Copyright in 2025: AI and Beyond.” To learn more or to register for the March 20th event, visit LINK. This week, OpenAI posted public comments on the Trump administration’s AI plan. Further, as a Bob Dylan fan I enjoyed the headline on Ars Technica’s article discussing…
Links for Week of February 21, 2025
This week, Meta claimed (in a filing to support its motion to dismiss the copyright claims over using the torrented files to train their AI) that its not copyright infringement if the torrented files are not further seeded. Good luck with that claim, Meta. There has also been more discussion of whether the new DOGE…
Links for Week of September 6, 2024
This week, via BeSpacific, I liked this Tech Policy article on the myths behind Generative AI. Further, the Internet Archive’s e-book lending was found not to be fair use on appeal to the Second Circuit. Myths Behind Generative AI Fair Use
Links for Week of July 5, 2024
This week, the Supreme Court ruled in Moody v. Netchoice re: social media moderation. I really liked LLRX’s article on navigating online risks of minors. Finally, Ars Technica had a nice article on a recent hearing in the copyright case against the Internet Archive’s digital lending practices. Moody v. Netchoice Navigating Online Risks for Minors…
Links for Week of June 16, 2023
I’m back this week from vacation. While I was out, at the Supreme Court a decision was reached in the Jack Daniels case. Here are three good takes on it from the Scotus Blog, the TTABlog, and Techdirt. Trademark – Parody
Links for Week of October 14, 2022
Parody https://www.loweringthebar.net/2022/10/best-brief-ever-written-the-onion.html Fair Use https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-mulls-line-between-art-theft-warhol-case-2022-10-11/ Privacy https://iapp.org/resources/article/privacy-tech-vendor-report/ Trademark – Updated US Office Action response deadlines https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/laws/2020-modernization-act/new-response-deadline-applications
Links of Note – April 22 2016
Here are this week’s links from Twitter (@Cyberlaw): Supreme Court denies cert in Authors Guild v. Google. https://t.co/zrV7sYy7Lk #fatladysings — James Grimmelmann (@grimmelm) April 18, 2016 An analysis of the Burr-Feinstein anti-Encryption bill pending in congress by @iainthomson at The Register – https://t.co/D5ktujGKSw — Kevin Thompson (@cyberlaw) April 14, 2016 Nice article by @gigalaw via…