AI and copyrights: The fight for fair use

Big tech companies Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic have been facing a growing number of lawsuits. Authors and creators say these companies are using their books and other creative works to train powerful AI without permission or payment.

These cases highlight how “fair use” works in the age of artificial intelligence (AI).

Recently, Meta won a lawsuit from 2023, against a group of authors who claimed the tech major used their copyrighted books to train its AI without their permission. The judge, Vince Chhabria, sided with Meta, saying the authors…