Two landmark copyright rulings against Meta and Anthropic ruled that AI companies can train models on copyrighted data without paying original creators royalties.
We'll break down the court cases against Meta and Anthropic, and the two legal defenses and loopholes they used to win.
Also this week, we'll cover Palantir's $800 million government contract to expand real-time AI surveillance through their Maven Smart System, the impacts of President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill on AI including a newly enforced 5-year moratorium on state AI laws, Anthropic's research on AI+Human companionship, and an AI-powered fashion app that visualizes clothes on virtual avatars.
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00:00 AI Training on Copyrighted Data: Intro
00:59 Major Legal Rulings on AI and Copyright
03:34 The US Copyright Office's Stance
06:24 Palantir's $800 Million AI Surveillance Contract
07:49 The Big Beautiful Bill and the Federal Moratorium on US State AI Laws
08:50 AI+LLM Companionship Research Report
09:54 Google's AI-Powered Fashion App Doppl
10:18 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
Core References:
https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/jnvwbgqlzpw/ANTHROPIC%20fair%20use.pdf
https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/zgvozmrynpd/META%20AI%20COPYRIGHT%20LAWSUIT%20ruling.pdf
https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf
https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-3-Generative-AI-Training-Report-Pre-Publication-Version.pdf
https://www.anthropic.com/news/how-people-use-claude-for-support-advice-and-companionship
https://news.clearancejobs.com/2025/05/21/army-awards-palantir-nearly-800m-for-maven-smart-system-software/
https://insidedefense.com/insider/pentagon-surges-palantir-maven-smart-system-contract-spending-more-1b
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/text
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5388608-trump-signs-tax-spend-package/
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/418380/big-beautiful-bill-ai-data-center
https://www.fastcompany.com/91360944/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-ai
https://19thnews.org/2025/07/ai-regulations-provision-removed-big-beautiful-bill/
https://labs.google/doppl/
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