{"id":7793,"date":"2025-05-27T20:43:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T12:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/?p=7793"},"modified":"2025-05-27T20:43:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T12:43:24","slug":"copyright-and-ai-in-the-courts-uncertain-terrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/2025\/05\/copyright-and-ai-in-the-courts-uncertain-terrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Copyright and AI in the Courts: Uncertain Terrain"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time : <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

The legal spotlight is shining on the practice of training AI models using copyrighted material. A recent ruling in the Thomson Reuters vs. Ross Intelligence case has stirred debate. The court found Ross’s use of legal headnotes for its AI tool wasn\u2019t fair use\u2014though its system wasn\u2019t generative and competed directly with Reuters, muddying the relevance to generative AI.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, the lawsuit from The New York Times against OpenAI is heating up. A U.S. District Judge recently allowed most of the Times\u2019 claims to move forward, setting the stage for a longer legal confrontation. While not yet definitive, it shows courts are starting to engage seriously with how AI interacts with copyright.<\/p>\n

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Experts are quick to caution that each case is unique, and broad conclusions are risky. The Ross decision doesn\u2019t necessarily apply to generative AI, and the courts haven’t yet ruled on whether training large language models on copyrighted data constitutes fair use. We\u2019re far from legal clarity.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. Copyright Office has also raised concerns. It\u2019s suggested that using copyrighted material in AI training, especially commercially, may not qualify as fair use. With potential Supreme Court involvement looming, this legal journey could take years\u2014and reshape the AI landscape.<\/p>\n

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#AI #copyright #law #courts #fairuse #litigation<\/p>\n

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Reading Time : <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span> The ongoing legal debates over using copyrighted material to train AI models are highlighted by a recent court ruling and The New York Times\u2019 lawsuit against OpenAI. Both cases reflect uncertainties surrounding whether such use qualifies as fair use, with experts and the U.S. Copyright Office weighing in cautiously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,345],"tags":[397,207,206,19,4,281,280,94],"class_list":["post-7793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everydays-chit-chat","category-futur","tag-397","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-benedicte","tag-gout-design","tag-justice","tag-law","tag-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7798,"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions\/7798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}