In copyright fight, artists use white-hot AI report as weapon against Meta

Image credit: brgfx via Freepik. Article by Cecily Mauran. Mashable – May 15, 2025.

Plaintiffs in the landmark Kadrey v. Meta case have already submitted the U.S. Copyright Office’s controversial AI report as evidence in their copyright infringement suit against the tech giant. Last Friday, the Copyright Office quietly released a “pre-publication version” of its views on the use of copyrighted works to train generative AI models. The consequential report contained bad news for AI companies hoping to claim the fair use legal doctrine as a defense in court. […]

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