AI and Intellectual Property: Training Data, Outputs, and the Litigation Wave

The copyright wars over training data — NYT v. OpenAI, Thomson Reuters v. Ross, Getty v. Stability — plus fair use factor by factor, the EU/Japan/UK text-and-data-mining exceptions, who owns AI outputs after Thaler, voice and likeness rights after the ELVIS Act, and the collision between trade secrets and transparency mandates.

Content current as of 2026-09.

Lessons

1. The training-data problem
2. Fair use on trial
3. Text and data mining: three legislative answers
4. Who owns the output?
5. Voices, faces, and trade secrets