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Does Using In-Copyright Works as Training Data Infringe?

The article discusses the legal aspects of copyrights in relation to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) developments, and it mentions copyright infringement claims involving the use of in-copyright materials in GenAI training data. The copyright court cases Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v, M...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 68; no. 11; pp. 28 - 31
Main Author: Samuelson, Pamela
Format: Opinion
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2025
Subjects:
Copyright infringement
Generative artificial intelligence
Training
Copyright cases
Fair use (Copyright)
Book piracy
Copyright
Data
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses the legal aspects of copyrights in relation to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) developments, and it mentions copyright infringement claims involving the use of in-copyright materials in GenAI training data. The copyright court cases Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v, Meta are assessed, as well as copyright's fair use doctrine, legal defenses, and, copyright-related piracy of books. Lost sales and market dilution are addressed.