United States of America: District Court for the Northern District of California issued order finding that Artificial Intelligence training with copyrighted works qualifies as fair use in certain circumstances (Bartz et al. v. Anthropic) (Case 3:24-cv-05417-WHA)
District Court for the Northern District of California issued order finding that Artificial Intelligence training with copyrighted works qualifies as fair use in certain circumstances (Bartz et al. v. Anthropic) (Case 3:24-cv-05417-WHA)
On 23 June 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order in Bartz et al. v. Anthropic, finding that the use of copyrighted works to train generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) models qualifies as tr…
Scope
Policy Area
Intellectual property
Policy Instrument
Copyright protection regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
ML and AI development
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
judiciary
Government Body
court
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2025-06-23
under investigation
On 23 June 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued an…
2025-09-05
under investigation
On 5 September 2025, Anthropic reached a USD 1.5 billion settlement in the class action lawsuit all…