Fair Use Cases 2025. Their “fair use” defence (essentially, that copyrighted material can be used without explicit permission in some cases) has got them off the hook in previous copyright cases, such. Opinion, judge leval has shown that fair use is not the ‘”firefox” some make it out to be.

We recently published an article that got much traction about whether machine learning on copyrighted materials is fair use. We looked at every written judicial opinion that discussed fair use from the beginning of 2019 through february 2021, and made them available in a searchable, sortable.