U.S. federal agency that administers copyright registration and policy, operating within the Library of Congress.
Steal a Brainrot's owners are suing Mementum, saying it has no rights to Tung Tung Tung Sahur, an OpenAI-made meme with hundreds of millions of views. The case asks a federal court whether prompting an AI image tool can make someone the author of a character about to appear in Fortnite.
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Thomson Reuters kept its copyright win over ROSS Intelligence on appeal, the first US appellate ruling on fair use in AI training. ROSS had been refused a Westlaw licence as a rival, so the ruling lets owners of training data set a price or decline to sell.
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The 20-page filing concedes an output can infringe on its own while asking that training be judged apart from it. If the judge agrees, the risk builders carry moves into the serving path, where it can be tested.
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A filing with no binding force still moves the cost of walking away, and every publisher currently quoting a number to a lab is quoting it to a counterparty whose government has said in court that permission may not be required.
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The Statement of Interest rests its fair use claim on two executive orders and a statute that requires no leave to file, which tells you what the filing cost the government and how long any relief priced off it can last.
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The coalition suing OpenAI and Microsoft passed 550 publishers this week, and the cost of training data will be settled either by Judge Sidney Stein's fair-use ruling or by private deals struck before it lands.
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Adoption became routine before anyone settled who owns what the model produces. A BeyondTrust executive's column argues that a provider's licence leaves both the ownership question and a third party's claim wide open.
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The rule the US Copyright Office set out in January 2025 survived the D.C. Circuit and then a 2026 cert denial, which leaves your defensible ownership in the editing, selection and arrangement you can actually point to.
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The Supreme Court's June 30 refusal to stay the order keeping her in office leaves Part 3 publishable, a document that binds no court but that plaintiffs appealing the 9th Circuit's fair-use holdings would cite in every brief.
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Only people can be inventors under US law, so the file on an AI-derived molecule has to show human contribution. Teams that do not document it are building patents someone can challenge.
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Kavan Cardoza lost a Batman fan film to a Warner Bros. claim. His own series is registered script by script and design by design, while the finished episodes are still pending.
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