The statement of interest argues that making unlicensed training impermissible would be legally incorrect, then concedes that fair use turns on the facts of each use. For teams pricing a content licence, the concession is the operative half.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 25%
- Operator
- Operator 38%
- Investor
- Investor 37%
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives72
- Confidence66
A filing with no binding force still moves the cost of walking away, and every publisher currently quoting a number to a lab is quoting it to a counterparty whose government has said in court that permission may not be required.
Perspective Coverage
5 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 26%
- Operator
- Operator 40%
- Investor
- Investor 34%
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives65
- Confidence68
Internal OpenAI and Microsoft memos about substitution now anchor the Times' liability motion
A new filing in the New York Times case against OpenAI and Microsoft builds its market-harm argument out of the two companies' own internal documents, obtained in discovery. Anyone shipping an answer feature on these models sits downstream of it.
Reality
- Evidence47
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives74
- Confidence46
The Justice Department moves the AI copyright fight to the licensing table
Justice's September 1 filing in the consolidated OpenAI MDL calls model training extraordinarily transformative. It binds no judge, which is precisely why its work shows up in the price of a licence rather than in the law.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption34
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives79
- Confidence44
Sony and Warner name Amodei and Mann personally in their lyrics-piracy suit
Sony Music and Warner Chappell want up to $150,000 for each of thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of songs, and they argue in the filing that the $1.5bn Anthropic already paid was too small to deter anyone valued at $2 trillion.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives84
- Confidence55
Round Hill's twin suits move the liability from the output to the intake
The publisher's complaints against Suno and Anthropic plead DMCA circumvention beside infringement, which moves a buyer's diligence question onto the corpus rather than the filter.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives72
- Confidence46
WikiHow's suit against OpenAI asks for a remedy that outlives the damages award
The 24th US copyright case against OpenAI wants a court order barring scraped how-to articles from future training runs. Only about a tenth of the articles carry registrations.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives66
- Confidence38
Alsup fined the download, not the training: the copyright risk in your stack is provenance
Alsup found Anthropic's training lawful and penalised the pirating of the books, so the exposure in an AI roadmap is the chain of custody for the data, and whether the output competes with its source.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives55
- Confidence52