fair use

Court rules Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train AI is ‘fair use’ – but it may not have much bearing on music rightsholders’ case against platform’s Claude

Copyright owners can't prevent their works for being used for training, a California judge has ruled, but using pirated copies is another story

From the ‘fair use’ win for Reuters to ByteDance building an AI music beast… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…

Using copyrighted content to train AI without permission is not ‘fair use’, US court rules in Thomson Reuters case

However, the ruling might not apply to the music industry’s lawsuits against generative AI developers

Merlin tells tech companies not to use its members’ music to train AI without authorization

Using Merlin members' music to train AI requires “explicit written authorization,” the organization has declared

OpenAI just won a copyright battle brought by two news outlets. What could this mean for the music industry’s lawsuits against AI firms?

Some observers say the ruling weakens music companies' claims against AI developers, but the OpenAI case is very different from the music cases

Anthropic trained its AI to rip off copyrighted lyrics, music publishers allege in escalating court battle

UMG, Concord and ABKCO allege that Anthropic's AI chatbot is still spitting out copyrighted lyrics, despite Anthropic's claim to the contrary

AI developers must get authorization to use copyrighted materials, India’s government declares

The Indian Music Industry (IMI) has applauded the declaration by the country's Minister of State for Commerce and Industry

Anthropic hits back against Universal’s AI copyright infringement lawsuit

The AI developer argues it was Universal and the other plaintiffs, not Anthropic, who infringed copyright