The Andersen v. Stability AI Jury Trial Opened, Testing Whether a Model Is Itself an Infringing Copy
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The first US jury trial on the question of whether a trained model constitutes an infringing copy of its training set began this week. Prior AI copyright outcomes have been settlements or summary judgment rulings on fair use; this puts the compressed-weights-as-copy theory in front of a jury. A verdict either way sets the anchor every subsequent training-data case argues from.