Tag Archives: AI

From Books to Music: The Post-Bartz Wave of AI Piracy Litigation and What It Means for Business Counsel

Massiel Moya Martinez – In June 2025, Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California issued one of the first major decisions addressing fair use in generative AI training. In Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, Judge Alsup held that using books to train Anthropic’s Claude models was “exceedingly transformative” and therefore qualified as fair use. […]

From the Picket Line to the Bottom Line: Inside New York’s Historic Nursing Strike

Nick Kriak – For forty-one days this winter, the nation’s largest and most complex healthcare market was forced to confront a simple but disruptive reality: hospitals cannot operate without nurses. What began on January 12 as the largest nursing strike in New York City history quickly escalated beyond a mere labor dispute. Nearly 15,000 nurses […]

Copyright Meets the Colossus: What the Anthropic Settlement Means for the Future of AI

Bryce Peters — The recent settlement of the Bartz v. Anthropic case marks one of the first major legal inflection points in the AI era. The outcome is one that forces AI companies, authors, and the business community to face an increasingly unavoidable question: If large-language models depend on copyrighted works to function, who gets […]

From Hire to Fire: How AI is Reshaping Civil Liability in the Workplace

Daniel Diez – Being fired by a robot once felt like something out of a movie. Now, it’s business as usual. Artificial intelligence (“AI”) is being used for hiring, evaluation, promotion, demotion, and termination decisions across the United States. The growing reliance on AI for employment decisions has created new legal risks, exposing businesses to […]