1. Dr. Suess vs. ComicMix, LLC (Oh, the places you will boldly go). Dr. Suess/Star Trek mashup. Problems: Copied highly creative style, did not make parody (no critique commentary), trading off Dr.

"It was a bridge too far. They overstepped," Hogan Lovells attorney Hans Hertell said of the alumni band after the federal court ruling analysis." In the case Earth, Wind & Fire IP LLC. v. Substantial ...

March 16, 2026 - In 2025, U.S. courts issued the first substantive, merits-stage decisions addressing whether the use of copyrighted works to train generative artificial intelligence systems ...

The day after The New York Times sued OpenAI for copyright infringement, the author and systems architect Daniel Jeffries wrote an essay-length tweet arguing that the Times “has a near zero ...

“Despite efforts by LLM providers to avoid reproducing lengthy excerpts from single works, strings of words from ingested works persist in LLMs. This has significant legal implications….” A spate of ...

Some artificial intelligence companies have argued the fair use doctrine in intellectual property law allows them to train generative AI models on news content and other copyrighted material.

Generative AI has emerged as a transformative force in technology, creating text, art, music and code that can rival human efforts. However, its rise has sparked significant debates around copyright ...

Join the Office of Alumni Engagement for a virtual talk by lawyer Greg Kanaan on legal issues that most commonly affect creative professionals. Fair use is one of the most easily misunderstood ...

"Fair use is a notoriously difficult and fact-specific analysis, and the Supreme Court's decision in Warhol did little to un-complicate it," said copyright attorney Cindy Gierhart. The U.S. Court of ...

On Wednesday, news industry executives urged Congress for legal clarification that using journalism to train AI assistants like ChatGPT is not fair use, as claimed by companies such as OpenAI. Instead ...

The allegedly infringing Tweet, from the court file; I've redacted the last name and part of the face, just as a matter of editorial discretion. From Judge George Daniels' opinion Tuesday in MCM Group ...

The Trump administration has reiterated its belief that training AIs on protected IP constitutes fair use – while urging Congress to let the courts “resolve this issue.” Additionally, the White House ...