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AI copyright

AI copyright is the area of law concerned with who owns and controls creative works used to train artificial intelligence systems and the content those systems produce, including questions of infringement, permission and fair use.

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Sep 9, 2026
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Oct 29, 2026

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  • Fair use benefits everyone Oct 29, 2026
  • Elvis Presley's rightsholders sue Anthropic over 274 songs allegedly used to train its models, seeking $41M+; Anthropic says it disagrees and will defend itself (Derrick Bryson Taylor/New York Times) Oct 26, 2026
  • USA Today becomes the latest publisher to sue OpenAI Oct 8, 2026
  • Anthropic urges Australia to consider "conditional approval" for Big Tech to train models on copyrighted works, giving copyright holders a choice to opt out (Josh Butler/The Guardian) Oct 1, 2026
  • A US appeals court upholds a ruling for Thomson Reuters in its copyright lawsuit against Ross Intelligence, rejecting Ross' fair use defense for AI training (Blake Brittain/Reuters) Sep 29, 2026
  • NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an "existential threat" from AI, and a Microsoft director called AI training "an astonishing theft" (Financial Times) Sep 17, 2026
  • Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile up Sep 9, 2026
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