Artificial Intelligence

Here’s What Happened:Our blog post of 7/8/2025 covered the Bartz v. Anthropic decision. The court had decided Anthropic’s use of purchased works to train its large language model (LLM) for artificial intelligence was fair use. But, Anthropic’s use of pirated works would not be fair use. The court continued the matter for trial in December […]

Here’s What Happened: We know that courts are grappling with whether training of large language models (LLMs) results in copyright infringement. But what about patents? Recentive Analytics Inc. obtained patents for two types of machine learning models in the entertainment industry. The patents involve a method of scheduling live events and refining “network maps” for […]

Here’s What Happened: Another court has weighed in on whether copyrighted works can be used to train AI. In our last post, we discussed how a court ruled that Anthropic PBC’s use of works it had purchased to train AI was fair use. But use of pirated works was not fair use. Like Antrhopic, Meta […]

Here’s What Happened: Anthropic PBC wanted to create an AI assistant named “Claude” to compete with other chatbots like ChatGPT. Anthropic wanted Claude to be a step above other chatbots by basing its training on well curated facts, well organized analyses and captivating fictional narratives. Like other chatbots, Anthropic had to find works for training […]

Here’s What Happened: Westlaw (owned by Thomson Reuters) gives attorneys handy headnotes and a key system for legal research. The headnotes summarize and organize a judge’s opinion so that an attorney can, at a glance, determine the relevance of a court’s opinion. Thomson Reuters owns the copyrights to the headnotes. Ross Intelligence Inc. used an […]

In Brief:  Creating a deep fake of George Carlin wasn’t funny. Here’s What Happened:   Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen host a podcast called “Dudsey”. Among other things, Dudsey, has created deep fakes of celebrities and creates hour long podcasts featuring them. A year ago, Tom Brady threatened to sue the show after they published […]