Fair Use vs. Licensing in Education: Legal Balance for Learning
Fair use and licensing represent two distinct pathways for educators and institutions to access copyrighted materials legally, each serving different needs within the educational ecosystem. Fair use offers flexibility for spontaneous classroom activities and transformative scholarship, while licensing provides certainty for systematic reproduction and distribution. This tension shapes everything from lecture slides to online course […]
Fair Play Doctrine in Generative AI: Judicial Divergence and Doctrinal Evolution in 2025
Introduction Some recent courtroom decisions have developed contradictions in interpretation of the fair use doctrine concerning AI training. In Bartz v. Anthropic, the court, applying the doctrine, classified AI training as transformative use, whereas in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence, fair use defense was denied in AI training activities. This inconsistency has placed copyright law […]
AI: Creator or Copier?
Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the biggest game-changers in recent years because of the innovative technologies that it has set forth. AI systems are becoming prominent from healthcare to entertainment now, based on the ability to learn new things, adapt to new situations and most of all the ability to produce […]
Who Owns the Information, and Why It Matters in an Era of Information Surveillance?
Introduction Although it is indisputable that a system for the efficient protection of personal data is necessary, India, along with a number of other jurisdictions, has had difficulty formulating a system that is optimal for a number of reasons. First, in order to effectively safeguard the interests of the data principal, laws governing Digital Intellectual Property and […]
Infringement of copyright and fair usage of IP Laws
Copyright infringement & fair use The term ‘Intellectual’ implies that it is specific to the mind or talent. Thus, Intellectual property refers to the creation of the human mind. It is non-physical (intangible) and it derives its value from ideas. It is a legal concept that confers the right to owners and creators of the […]