Fall 2026 Edition
Copyright Law in the Age of AI 2026 in pdf
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Copyright Law in the Age of AI is a complete casebook on United States copyright law, free to download from this website and current to August 2026. Across 28 chapters and 177 extracted decisions, it covers the field from subject matter and originality, the reproduction and derivative work rights, fair use, ownership, the distribution and public performance rights, secondary liability, the safe harbors, and remedies. This is a general copyright law textbook that focuses on the intersection of copyright law and AI because that is where the most interesting and contested questions in copyright are. AI runs through the book rather than being confined to a single chapter. The book is up to date with all the latest case law up until mid-August 2026. Comparative notes set the American position against decisions from the United Kingdom, the European Union, Germany and India. It can be used as a standalone textbook, or a chapter at a time alongside another.
A few things which set this book apart from other comparable copyright textbooks, include tackling fair use relatively early in the materials and devoting six chapters to it. Some of these chapters can be skipped or read selectively if that is appropriate, but my experience has been that students who only read the headline Supreme Court cases and a couple of court of appeals cases don’t develop workable intuitions about how the doctrine is actually applied. Also, as noted, AI is integrated wherever it is relevant rather than quarantined to a chapter or two. Finally, the book tries to follows the law past the headline cases to see how they are received and applied by lower courts and the Copyright Office.