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, ...

Andy, putting together a newsletter on his home computer, reprints an editorial he likes from a daily newspaper. Phil, a biographer and historian, quotes from several unpublished letters and diaries ...

The "fair use" defense to copyright infringement is one of the most amorphous legal doctrines. Originating in the U.S. courts, and adopted by only a few other countries, it allows "fair" use of ...

The Computer and Communications Industry Association in August implored the Federal Trade Commission in a filing to parse through language found in copyright warnings appearing before movies, ...

Fair use is a legal doctrine that allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission from the rights holders. However, whether a specific use qualifies as fair use depends on several ...

With theaters of all sizes closed, performing artists find themselves at home with an uptick in weekly screen time. Entrepreneurial-minded performers are attempting to benefit from this trend by ...

When is art inspired by other art, and when is it simply derivative of the original work? That is the question the U.S. Supreme Court will try to answer in a case involving a series of Andy Warhol ...

OpenAI keeps deleting data that could allegedly prove the AI company violated copyright laws by training ChatGPT on authors' works. Apparently largely unintentional, the sloppy practice is seemingly ...

“Despite efforts by LLM providers to avoid reproducing lengthy excerpts from single works, strings of words from ingested works persist in LLMs. This has significant legal implications….” A spate of ...