The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently put the brakes on more than two decades of widespread judicial application of the “transformative use ...

First, federal judge Pierre Leval published “Towards a Fair Use Standard”in a leading law review. It argued that a use’s transformative nature was the most important factor in fair-use analysis.

In 2025, three federal district court decisions began to sketch the boundaries of what counts as fair use in the context of AI training.

The Copyright Act generally protects the author or owner of a work’s exclusive right to publish, distribute or perform the work. This general protection is subject ...

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 ...

Fair Use is legal code written into the United States law to provide a balance (under certain conditions) to a copyright holders exclusive rights. It is based upon a four-factor analysis of a proposed ...

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The doctrine of fair use allows people in certain instances to copy or use the work or content of others. The ease of duplication nowadays has caused an increase of copying, and an increase in ...