A US federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that an AI company’s use of copyrighted material to train its models did not qualify as fair use, handing a win to Thomson Reuters in a closely watched copyright case. The decision reinforces an earlier ruling against the AI firm’s copying practices.
The case drew support from the RIAA and the National Music Publishers’ Association, both of which have been pushing back against AI companies’ reliance on fair use arguments to justify training on copyrighted works without licenses. The ruling is likely to bolster similar copyright claims brought by music rights holders against AI developers.
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