Category: copyright
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DOJ Enters the AI Copyright Fight — and Mostly Gets It Right
So, this just happened. On September 1, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a statement of interest in the sprawling OpenAI copyright litigation, In re OpenAI, Inc., Copyright Infringement Litigation, the multidistrict…
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This post is a very lightly edited extract from my forthcoming article in the Duke Law Journal, Copyright’s Jagged Frontier (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6319379) What does AI memorization prove? Some argue that any evidence of…
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Why the Line Between Legal and Infringing AI Won’t Be a Line at All By Matthew James Sag Everyone wants to know whether training AI on copyrighted works is legal. The real…
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The Mouse and the Model: the Disney-OpenAI Deal
The other shoe has finally dropped. Today, December 11, 2025, OpenAI and Disney announced a partnership that essentially signals a marriage between generative AI and legacy media. Although some kind of deal…
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Copyright Winter is Coming (to Wikipedia?)
Judge Stein’s Order Denying OpenAI’s Motion to Dismiss in Authors Guild v. OpenAI, Inc., No. 25-md-3143 (SHS) (OTW) (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 27, 2025) A new ruling in Authors Guild v. OpenAI has major…
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Competition from AI music, Country Girls Make Do
As of October 2025, Suno and Udio are two text-to-music AI platforms that let users create full songs—including lyrics, vocals, and artwork—simply by entering text prompts. Some of this music is unappealing,…
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Skater Beagle and the Puzzle of AI Creativity
Generative AI poses a puzzle for copyright lawyers, and many others besides. How can a soulless mechanical process lead to the creation of new expression, seemingly out of nothing, or if not…
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Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence (Summary Judgement)
In a closely watched decision revising a previous summary judgment, Judge Stephanos Bibas, a Third Circuit judge sitting by designation, sided largely with Thomson Reuters in its copyright dispute against ROSS Intelligence.…
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A response to Lee and Grimmelmann
TIM LEE (@binarybits) and JAMES GRIMMELMANN have written an insightful article on “Why The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI” in Ars Technica and on Tim’s newsletter (https://www.understandingai.org/p/the-ai-community-needs-to-take-copyright).…
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ABA Webinar on Scraping/Mining Public-Facing Information for Generative AI
Thanks for everyone involved in the ABA Section on IP Law webinar toady (July 24, 2023). As promised, here is a link to my slides.