Dueling Decisions: AI Training and Fair Use After Kadrey and Bartz
Two federal judges have just issued the first rulings to directly confront whether using copyrighted works to train generative AI models qualifies as fair use. In Kadrey v. Meta Platforms and Bartz v. Anthropic, the Northern District of California offered sharply contrasting perspectives on this pivotal issue.
On July 9, 2025, Robert Rotstein and Josh Geller broke down the decisions and explored what they signal for the future of fair use, licensing, and the dozens of AI-related cases now working their way through the courts.