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U.S. courts remain split on whether training AI models on copyrighted material is fair use, after Judge William Alsup ruled in June 2025 that training on purchased, digitized books was fair use while Judge Vince Chhabria reached the opposite conclusion tw

Courts are split on whether AI training qualifies as fair use, with two federal judges in San Francisco reaching opposite rulings.

Google's AI governance paper argues public-web training should remain fair use while pointing to opt-out controls, takedowns, and paid deals for specialized content.

Google is reportedly looking to bleed publishers yet again -- threatening to exclude them from a lucrative new artificial-intelligence partnership unless they allow the tech giant to train its AI bots on their valuable content.