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Internet, IT & e-Discovery
LLMs think they have “fair use” of all Copyrighted works!
By Peter Vogel
Computerworld.com reported that “They all use vast amounts of copyrighted material to train their large language models (LLMs) without paying the copyright holders. In other words, they steal it. They…
Copyright Lately
What’s Up With Copyright Lately?: Summer Breeze Edition
By Aaron Moss
Reaction videos, reggaetón riddims, nine-year-old tweets, and a poet’s second loss to Taylor Swift. The courts spent the run-up to summer clearing their dockets. Here’s what piled up. Welcome to…
TheTMCA.com
FIFA’s Strict Trademark Enforcement: Could the Trademark Fair Use Exception Apply to the World’s Game?
The 2026 World Cup is in full swing across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. FIFA closely guards the intellectual property surrounding the World Cup, including word marks associated with the…
Copyright Lately
Judge’s First Take Favors Denims—But Will It Survive the Recut?
By Aaron Moss
Tentative reactions to a tentative ruling: court’s draft order would hand Twitch streamer Denims a fair use win in Ethan Klein’s reaction-video lawsuit, but the analysis it skipped could matter…
Copyright Lately
Hatewatch This Space: Catching Up With Ethan Klein’s Reaction Video Lawsuits
By Aaron Moss
A year after Klein sued three Twitch streamers over their Content Nuke reactions, only Denims is still fighting—and her motion for judgment on the pleadings raises a fair use question…
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Blogger’s Photo Republication Isn’t Fair Use–Vedros v. Endless Mt. Labradors
By Eric Goldman
This is a run-of-the-mill photographer copyright enforcement action. As a commission for an advertiser, Vedros created a photo that depicts “a dog placing its front paws on a scale with…
The IP Law Blog
The Briefing: Documentary Fair Use After Warhol: The Tenth Circuit Gets It Right
By Scott Hervey
https://youtu.be/15K7cPfbLII Did the courts just preserve documentary filmmaking as we know it? In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin Partner Scott Hervey and Associate Caroline M. Korpiel revisit the…
LawSnap
Anthropic Won on Fair Use. Then It Agreed to Pay $1.5 Billion
By LawSnap
In Bartz v. Anthropic, the court gave Anthropic a major win on AI training: using lawfully acquired books to train Claude was fair use. But Anthropic did not get the…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Not Every AI Wins on Fair Use — Lawyers Would be Worthy Plaintiffs
Imagine someone copying all of your publishing and the publishing of other authors and publishers like you, and saying they had the right to do so because they were training…
Copyright Lately
Tenth Circuit Redeems Itself in ‘Tiger King’ Fair Use Case
By Aaron Moss
A replacement opinion affirms Netflix’s fair use of a one-minute funeral clip—and gives documentary filmmakers the post-Warhol roadmap they’ve been waiting for. The Tiger King hype lasted about six weeks.…