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Judge Bibas Lays Down the Law on When AI Training Constitutes Copyright Infringement 

Brett Trout

Brett Trout In a significant decision for copyright law and legal technology, Judge Stephanos Bibas granted partial summary judgment in favor of Thomson Reuters, rejecting ROSS Intelligences fair use defense in a closely watched lawsuit over the use of Westlaws legal content.

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2019 California Lawyers Association Annual Meeting

Legal Talk Network

The standard attendance was up from 600 to 800 this year, but with new found collaborations from additional organizations including the California Judges Association, there were 1,300 legal professionals gathered to participate in cross-over programming designed to benefit everyone involved. . CLAAnnualMeeting19 pic.twitter.com/famxE2jXs0.

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An Early Win for Copyright Owners in AI Cases as Court Rejects Fair Use Defense

Debevoise Data Blog

In a ruling with potential implications for other pending generative artificial intelligence (AI) copyright cases, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH & West Publishing Corp. ROSS Intelligence Inc. some creative spark.

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AI Discovery Battles Heat Up as AI Developer Ordered to Produce Training Data

Debevoise Data Blog

After many rounds of motions to dismiss, intellectual property cases against AI developers are moving into the discovery phase. Just weeks into 2025, we got our first answer, with a court ordering OpenAI to produce a complete training dataset to plaintiffs. What Happened?

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My New Article on Abusive “Schedule A” IP Lawsuits Will Likely Leave You Angry

Eric Goldman

I’m pleased to share a draft of a new paper, “ A SAD New Category of Abusive Intellectual Property Litigation.” This paper explains the scheme, how it bypasses standard legal safeguards, how it’s affected hundreds of thousands of defendants, and how it may have cost the federal courts a quarter-billion dollars.

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Journalists’ Lack of Harm Fatal to DMCA Claims Against AI Developer

Debevoise Data Blog

Developers of artificial intelligence (“AI”) systems notched a victory last week when a federal judge dismissed claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) premised on the use of copyrighted works in AI training data, holding that the plaintiffs had failed to show any concrete harm and therefore lacked standing to bring their claims.

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Marina Shepelsky: How to Be a Top Lawyer in Your Niche

Attorney at Work

Intellectual property law sparked her interest until she found it to be boring. “In I then dabbled in patents and trademarks and intellectual property law. Supreme Court. Immigration Courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals. . But it was too dry for me,” she says. “I She is admitted in all 58 U.S.