Copyright laws didn't anticipate AI/LLMs - will copyright soon be meaningless?

Corey Sienega

This ruling in favor of Anthropic’s claim that the fair use doctrine allows for use of copyrighted materials to train large language models (LLMs) is either a very narrow view of “fair use”—OR points to the idea that copyright laws just didn’t anticipate LLMs.

Lawyer friends— Will copyright laws be amended to address LLMs? And in light of this ruling, will copyright eventually lose its meaning? (The full ruling linked in article.)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/a-federal-judge-sides-with-anthropic-in-lawsuit-over-training-ai-on-books-without-authors-permission/

Corey Sienega

Frightening prediction from one entertainment attorney:

“Streamers will start using AI to ‘write’ books that they own and then adapting those that succeed. Amazon is best positioned to do this. Put out a thousand algorithmically developed books, promote them directly to interest groups, adapt them as shows. No payments, no dealmaking.”