Fair use is a concept in US copyright law that was created to balance the exclusive rights of copyright owners and the needs of everyday users of copyrighted material. Fair use of copyrighted works, ...

Fair Use. Fair Use is a legal doctrine that allows for limited use of copyright-protected materials without first obtaining permission from the copyright owner, or paying licensing fees,such as for ...

The 108-page report deals primarily with copyright concerns around the training of AI models -- specifically, whether AI companies have legal footing to ask for a fair-use exception, which would ...

Opinion: Loeb & Loeb's Tal Dickstein analyzes what two major decisions that allowed tech companies to use copyrighted ...

The report concluded that while some use cases of AI training would fall under fair use, including research and education, using copyrighted materials to create competing commercial works would not.

The copying of our content was not “fair use.” However, as the judge noted, this case involved “non-generative” AI, not a generative AI tool like an LLM.

AI companies often rely on the fair use argument, claiming that they do not reproduce content, rather they analyse and transform it. On the other hand, those who hold copyright often claim theft .

Notably, the office concluded that the first and fourth factors of fair use—which assess the character of the use (and whether it is transformative) and how that use affects the market—are ...