IP Attorney Randy McCarthy for The Hollywood Reporter - Some Good News for Hollywood Creators Suing AI Companies
February 2025
The Hollywood Reporter
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Randy McCarthy, an intellectual property lawyer at Hall Estill, says that the court’s ruling will be “heralded by existing groups of artists and content creators as the key to their case against the other generative AI systems.” He adds, “One thing is clear, merely using copyrighted material as training data to an AI cannot be said to be fair use per se.”
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