In her yahoo!finance article “Meta, Anthropic win legal battles over AI ‘training.’ The copyright war is far from over,” Senior Legal Reporter Alexis Keenan asked our Copyright/Intellectual Property Partner, Courtney Lytle Sarnow, what possible next steps might be.
Alexis notes that while AI developers may have won momentary legal battles when federal judges in California ruled that Anthropic and Meta could “train” large language models on copyrighted books, the war over who owns “protected works” is far from over.
According to Courtney, “There is no predicting what’s going to come out of the other end of those cases.” And she expects the disputes will end up in appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Courtney also notes that U.S. copyright law gives creators of original works exclusive rights to those works, including some derivative works and sequels to their original creations. Without securing rights from the rights holders to use their copyrighted materials, she says all large language models are stealing from authors.
But then, there is “fair use,” and how that is defined.
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