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AI's ability to 'obliterate' market could sink Meta's fair use argument in US

By Maria Dinzeo ( May 1, 2025, 23:02 GMT | Insight) -- The fate of a seminal AI copyright case against Meta hinges on one question: whether the market for copyrighted works will be dramatically affected by their use in training AI models. The US federal judge overseeing the case hammered on that point at a hearing today in San Francisco as he grilled lawyers for both Meta and copyright holders over whether the potential for AI to create a product that can obliterate the market for someone's work would run afoul of fair use.The fate of a seminal AI copyright case against Meta hinges on the question of whether the market for copyrighted works will be dramatically affected by their use in training AI models....

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