A federal court just held training AI on unlicensed books IS fair use

This week’s musings on tech contracts… On Monday, a U.S. federal district court held that AI vendors don’t infringe copyright when they train gen-AI on unlicensed books. The “fair use” exception protects AI training. The decision in Bartz v. Anthropic is bad news for authors, artists, publishers, and other copyright-holders. If it guides future law, […]