As I’ve said before in my February 23, 2024 blog , In 2018, the Province of Alberta and dozens of K-12 school boards sued Access Copyrigh...| excesscopyright.blogspot.com
This week, in Bartz v. Anthropic, Judge Alsup (Northern District of California) ruled that training AI large language models (LLMs) on lawfully acquired works of authorship is fair use. This is a l…| Copyleft Currents
[T]he fair use of a copyrighted work . . . is not an infringement of copyright. Fair use gives users the right to use copyrighted material without permission under certain circumstances. If a use i…| Copyright Information
1 post published by Kate Downing during May 2025| Law Offices of Kate Downing
Creative Commons and the NYU Stern Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation recently hosted a workshop in NYC, inviting participants with expertise in IP and various “open” …| Law Offices of Kate Downing
Authors Alliance’s Dave Hansen and Yuanxiao Xu in Studio Ghibli style In late March, OpenAI made it possible to “Ghiblify” yourself — using its newest version of ChatGPT, with updated image generat…| Authors Alliance
The Beastie Boys filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Chili’s over a 'Sabotage' parody, but is it a case of mistaken identity?| Copyright Lately
The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI.| www.understandingai.org
Software freedom is our goal. Copyleft is a strategy to reach that goal. That tenet is oft forgotten by activists. Copyleft is even abused to advance proprietary goals. We too often see concern about the future of copyleft overshadow the necessary fundamental question: does a particular behavior or trend — and the inevitable outcomes of those behaviors and trends — increase or decrease users’ rights to copy, share, modify, and reinstall modified versions of their software? That question...| Software Freedom Conservancy
house report no. 94–1476General Background of the Problem. The judicial doctrine of fair use, one of the most important and well-established limitations on the exclusive right of copyright owners, would be given express statutory recognition for the first time in section 107. The claim that a defendant’s acts constituted a fair use rather than an infringement has been raised as a defense in innumerable copyright actions over the years, and there is ample case law recognizing the existence...| LII / Legal Information Institute