In the Kadrey v. Meta Platforms case, Judge Chabbria's quest to bust the fair use copyright defense to generative AI training rises from the dead!

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Note: This post culminates in a call to authors and lawyers who might want to do something As you may recall, in our last thrilling episode Judge Alsup in Bartz v. Anthropic on June 23, 2025—shortly before retiring at 80—had ruled that using copyrighted materials to train AI LLMs was protected under the fair use doctrine (although he found a valid copyright claim as to how some of those materials had been gathered). Two breathtaking days later on June 25, 2025, the much younger Judge Chhabria...