US Copyright Office released a controversial report on AI impact on copyright and then one day later Trump fired the Director, Shira Perlmutter. A key finding of the report was that AI companies using copyrighted materials to train their models may not be protected by the fair use legal doctrine.
Here’s a copy of the report. And some commentary by: Futurism, CMU, Jenner & Block, Mashable, The Hill,
UK House of Lords refuses UK government copyright and AI law instead requiring data companies to disclose which copyrighted material they have used. Read more at: The Guardian, Techmeme, Billboard, The Telegraph, Engadget,
The US Federal Circuit has reduced the scope of Estoppel allowing the same prior art to be used in IPR proceedings as well as later district court cases, provided they are pleaded under different grounds. Read more at: PatentlyO, IPWatchDog, Dentons, JDSupra,