{"id":1174,"date":"2025-03-13T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2025-03-13T14:26:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:26:31","slug":"artificial-intelligence-tools-and-copyright-infringement-issues-during-the-training-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/2025\/03\/13\/artificial-intelligence-tools-and-copyright-infringement-issues-during-the-training-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Tools and Copyright Infringement Issues During the Training Process"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Duane Morris attorneys&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/jennifermlantz.html\">Jennifer Lantz<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/jeremyelman.html\">Jeremy Elman<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/maxdibaise.html\">Max DiBaise<\/a>&nbsp;authored the&nbsp;<em>Bloomberg Law&nbsp;<\/em>article, \u201cGenerative AI Training Case Flags Competition as Major Factor,\u201d exploring what the&nbsp;<em>Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence<\/em>&nbsp;decision\u2019s novel application of the \u201cfair use\u201d defense of copyright law means for generative AI training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Companies must be mindful of the ultimate purpose of new artificial intelligence tools to avoid running into copyright infringement issues during the training process. If widely adopted, the&nbsp;<em>Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence<\/em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>decision suggests \u201cintermediate copying\u201d cases are unlikely to provide a strong defense when the final output of a tool mirrors the products it was trained on. Accordingly, the key question is likely to what extent the AI system is competing with the underlying copyrighted work. The further away the system is, the more likely it is to be protected under the fair-use doctrine.&nbsp;<strong>Read the full article on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/generative-ai-training-case-flags-competition-as-major-factor\"><em>Bloomberg Law<\/em>&nbsp;website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duane Morris attorneys&nbsp;Jennifer Lantz,&nbsp;Jeremy Elman&nbsp;and&nbsp;Max DiBaise&nbsp;authored the&nbsp;Bloomberg Law&nbsp;article, \u201cGenerative AI Training Case Flags Competition as Major Factor,\u201d exploring what the&nbsp;Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence&nbsp;decision\u2019s novel application of the \u201cfair use\u201d defense of copyright law means for generative AI training. Companies must be mindful of the ultimate purpose of new artificial intelligence tools to avoid running &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/2025\/03\/13\/artificial-intelligence-tools-and-copyright-infringement-issues-during-the-training-process\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Artificial Intelligence Tools and Copyright Infringement Issues During the Training Process&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052],"tags":[552,548,152,150,1139,22,1200,1111,1229,1230],"ppma_author":[878],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-copyright","tag-copyright-infringement","tag-genai","tag-intellectual-property","tag-ip","tag-jennifer-lantz","tag-jeremy-elman","tag-max-dibaise"],"authors":[{"term_id":878,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}