copyright law

[kop-ee-rahyt law]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the body of laws and regulations that govern the exclusive rights of an author or creator to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit their literary, musical, or artistic work.
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U.S. copyright law protects photos, and a patchwork of state laws limits the use of your name or likeness without permission.

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District Judge William Alsup agreed in part with Anthropic, ruling that the training itself did not violate copyright law, but that the piracy certainly did.

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On Tuesday, a U.S. district judge ruled that Amazon-backed startup Anthropic did not violate copyright law when it used the works of three authors to train the company’s flagship chatbot, Claude.

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Where they diverge on the second point is how much training itself violates copyright law.

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“Neither case is going to be the last word” in the battle between copyright holders and AI developers, says Adam Moss, a Los Angeles attorney specializing in copyright law.

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The AI developers reply that training falls within the “fair use” exemption in copyright law, which depends on several factors — if only limited material is drawn from a copyrighted work, if the resulting product is “transformative,” and if it doesn’t significantly cut into the market for the original work.

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