The year 2025 left the media and entertainment industry with a series of significant, unresolved legal questions. As we move into 2026, ...

Until two weeks ago, no U.S. court had ruled on whether training generative AI models on copyrighted works could constitute a fair use, or if the simple act of training such models without a license ...

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is seeking to immediately appeal a judge's rejection of its fair-use defense to claims that it infringed copyright by downloading pirated books in order to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Intellectual Property attorney helping artists tell their stories through film and media. The use of AI systems has become part of ...

On Wednesday, the judge in the landmark AI copyright case Kadrey, et al. v. Meta Platforms Inc. ruled in Meta’s favor. And U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria seemed to do so reluctantly, calling his ...

Alan R. Friedman, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, writes that the recent ruling in Salinger v. Colting provides some reassurance to copyright owners that more than an after-the-fact rationale as ...

A federal judge on Monday rejected Anthropic's request to pause a copyright suit by authors while it attempts to appeal his ruling allowing the matter to proceed as a class-action. U.S. District Court ...

For a regularly updated case tracker covering intellectual property and privacy-related lawsuits concerning GenAI (including more decisions addressing fair use), see Generative AI: Federal Litigation ...