"Rather than walking through the four-factor fair use analysis for each case, this column will discuss two significant caveats that these decisions have added to the ongoing debate in the courts about ...

Fair use is a legal doctrine that allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission from the rights holders. However, whether a specific use qualifies as fair use depends on several ...

Much of the focus on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has been on training data ingestion—the moment when AI ...

The US Copyright Office's report comes as the agency is under political fire, with President Trump reportedly firing its head this weekend. Katelyn is a writer with ...

A federal judge, William Alsup, recently ruled that the AI company Anthropic did not break the law by using published books to train its artificial intelligence systems without the authors’ permission ...

Meaghan Kent, an intellectual property partner at Venable LLP, discusses recent court rulings on whether artificial intelligence training models are free to draw on copyrighted content. There’s a ...

AI startup Suno has admitted that it uses copyrighted songs to train its AI model. But, it argues, doing so is legal under copyright law’s “fair use” doctrine. Suno is one of two companies (Udio being ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I consult on marketing strategy, content creation, and messaging. At first glance, the solution seems deceptively simple— make the ...

Hollywood is united in standing up to the proliferation of piracy, but there’s an area of copyright law that leaves the industry perpetually perplexed. It’s the concept of “fair use,” the protection ...