{"id":133639,"date":"2025-09-22T07:17:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=133639"},"modified":"2025-09-22T07:17:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:17:44","slug":"ai-and-the-fair-use-defense-lessons-from-two-recent-summary-judgment-rulings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/22\/ai-and-the-fair-use-defense-lessons-from-two-recent-summary-judgment-rulings\/","title":{"rendered":"AI and the Fair Use Defense: Lessons from Two Recent Summary Judgment Rulings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two judges in the Northern District of California recently issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings regarding whether an artificial intelligence company’s scraping and ingestion of copyrighted works to train its LLMs qualified as fair use. Both decisions carry potentially seismic importance for AI companies and intellectual property litigators.<\/p>\n

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Two judges in the Northern District of California recently issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings regarding whether an artificial intelligence company’s scraping and ingestion of copyrighted works to train its LLMs qualified as fair use. Both decisions carry potentially seismic importance for AI companies and intellectual property litigators.<\/p>\n

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Two judges in the Northern District of California recently issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings regarding whether an artificial intelligence company’s scraping and ingestion of copyrighted works to train its LLMs qualified as fair use. Both decisions carry potentially seismic importance for AI companies and intellectual property litigators. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Two judges in the Northern District of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/legal-news-ktfsjo.jpg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133644,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133639\/revisions\/133644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}