The Fair Use Checklist and variations on it have been widely used for many years to help educators, librarians, lawyers, and many other users of copyrighted works determine whether their activities ...

Meta Platforms has asked a U.S. court to rule that it did not violate copyright law when it used books by writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, comedian Sarah Silverman and others to train its artificial ...

Plus, the court arrived at the fair use answer after determining that the defendant had allegedly aimed “to compete with Westlaw by developing a market substitute.” In a statement, Thomson ...

Meta Platforms Inc.'s effort to defeat a copyright lawsuit over training its AI model received a boost from a group of law ...

For example, a paragraph excerpted from a book would be considered fair use as long as the original work is cited. However, if a poem in its entirety is only one paragraph, or as in the case with ...

In April 2022, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy D. Degiusti determined the video’s inclusion amounted to fair use that did not infringe Sepi’s copyright. In March 2024, the 10th Circuit cited the ...

The big picture: With at least one court ruling that AI training does not qualify as fair use, OpenAI is looking to the Trump administration's upcoming AI Action Plan to help resolve ongoing ...

This checklist will help analyze whether your use of a copyrighted work falls within the limits of fair use under U.S. copyright law. Remember: No single item or factor determines fair use. Select all ...