On May 9, 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office released a “pre-publication” version of Part III of its highly anticipated Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Report). The Report provides a technical overview of how generative AI models are developed, trained, and deployed and how U.S. copyright law, particularly the fair use doctrine, should apply in the context of training generative AI models. The prepublication report states that it was released “in response to congressional inquiries and expressions of interest from stakeholders” and that “[a] final version will be published in the near future, without any substantive changes expected in the analysis or conclusions.”

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