In the fight over AI, copyright is America’s competitive weapon — “China’s leading model, DeepSeek, was reportedly trained in part on stolen intellectual property from U.S. models and creators. If the U.S. abandons its own standards, we don’t ‘catch up’ to China; we simply validate a global race to the bottom in which American creative capital becomes free raw material for anyone to scrape. In contrast, a rights-cleared AI stack would give American firms something uniquely exportable: legal certainty, ethical legitimacy, and a system in which creators actively want to participate.”
OpenAI on losing track in German copyright case brought by music rights collecting society over song lyrics; injunction looms large — “The presiding judge left no doubt in her introductory outline of the issues in the case that the panel deems OpenAI liable for copyright infringement. She noted that the facts (which OpenAI addressed in apparently voluminous pleadings) were actually ‘not complicated’ given that OpenAI does not dispute the use of the copyrighted works at issue in the training of its ChatGPT model. The judges are furthermore unpersuaded that users, not OpenAI, bear the responsibility for ChatGPT’s outputs.”
Top Noteworthy Copyright Stories from September 2025 — “In September, the most significant copyright news was the landmark settlement in a major AI copyright case, and the filing of several new copyright infringement cases against AI companies. Here is a quick snapshot of other top copyright news stories from September 2025.”
Unlocking Infringement? Post University Lawsuit Targets Course Hero’s Business Practices — “At its core, Post University v. Course Hero (Learneo, Inc.) is a copyright and trademark infringement case involving a private university suing a major online educational platform—an unusual plaintiff in a space typically dominated by textbook publishers or media companies. For Post, the stakes involve control over its pedagogical content, institutional reputation, and accreditation integrity; for Course Hero, the case strikes at the heart of its user-generated content model and DMCA safe harbor reliance. Course Hero moved for summary judgment on Post’s claims. The Court denied Course Hero’s motion on the core intellectual property claims brought on Post.”