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German court rules AI music generator Suno violated copyrights, rejects fair use defense
A Munich court issued a preliminary ruling finding Suno liable for copyright infringement in both model training and output generation, identifying six songs as reproducibly stored in its models and rejecting statutory exceptions and fair use arguments.
Aug 1, 2026
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
AI companies are reportedly dismantling physical books—including rare and out-of-print volumes—using industrial equipment to digitize and ingest their contents for model training, with no public documentation of scale, consent, or preservation efforts.
Jul 28, 2026
U.S. Copyright Office Fair Use Index - Copyright Office (.gov)
The U.S. Copyright Office maintains a publicly accessible Fair Use Index to catalog judicial decisions on fair use in copyright law, serving as a reference tool for legal practitioners, educators, and researchers.
Published Dec 1, 2016 · Analyzed Jul 25, 2026