The battle between AI companies and copyright holders notched an early win for publishers in the U.S. in mid-February when a court ruled that a legal research firm didn’t have the right to use a rival’s content.
But even as the number of legal cases grows, a definite answer to the question of whether artificial intelligence companies can use copyrighted content to train their AI products is still a long way off.
“We’ve been having this conversation for quite some time already,” said Carys Craig, a professor at York University’s law school who specializes in intellectual property. “But it’s still early days.”…