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Artificial intelligence (AI) is now part of daily life, powering customer service chatbots, virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa, automated email responses, and personalized shopping recommendations. But as these systems get smarter, they need ever-larger amounts of data to learn, often drawing on copyrighted books and creative works. This has led to new legal battles over whether AI companies are crossing the line into copyright infringement, or whether their use of these materials to train large language models qualifies as “fair use.” Meta’s Fair Use Win: The Importance of Market Impact One of the most closely watched cases in this area is  Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc. , involving Meta (Facebook’s parent company) and its AI model “Llama.” The authors who brought the lawsuit argued that Meta used their books to train its AI without permission and that this would harm their ability to license their works in the future . The court approached the issue by carefully considering t...

 In a recent ruling in Lopez v. Apple, Inc., Apple faced significant sanctions for failing to suspend its automated data deletion policy for Siri recordings after the initiation of litigation. This case is a  reminder of the importance of understanding your data sources and conducting proactive data preservation in today’s digital ag e. The Case and Its Implications In Lopez, plaintiffs alleged that Apple violated their privacy rights by activating Siri without consent and sharing recordings with third parties . Apple’s failure to suspend its automated data deletion processes for captured Siri data led to the destruction of vast amounts of potentially relevant evidence. The Court found that Apple had a duty to preserve the data, and their failure to do so prejudiced the plaintiffs. This led to sanctions, including precluding Apple from using the absence of the deleted data in their defense and an adverse jury instruction regarding intent. Key Takeaways for Litigation Professio...