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Copyright and Generative AI: what Australia can learn from the Meta and Anthropic Rulings
In 2025, two U.S. court decisions, Kadrey v. Meta and Bartz v. Anthropic, have provided the first real judicial answers to a pressing question, can using copyrighted works to train large language models (LLMs) amount to fair use?Judges Vince Chhabria and William Alsup, in the Meta and Anthropic cases respectively, both found…
OpenAI’s screenless future on pause amidst trade mark dispute
BackgroundIn early May, OpenAI surprised the tech world with news of an estimated $6.4 billion partnership and acquisition involving “io”, a new venture led by renowned designer Sir Jony Ive. Ive is best known for creating iconic Apple products like the iPhone and Apple Watch. The collaboration aims to develop a groundbreaking…
Meta’s AI lawsuit in the USA & what it could mean for the future of AI & copyright
Recently, Meta appeared in a US federal court to defend one of the most closely watched copyright challenges of the AI era. The lawsuit is being brought by a group of prominent US authors including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Richard Kadrey. The plaintiffs allege that Meta unlawfully used millions of copyrighted books, downloaded…