ANALYSIS: Disney to Test Fair Use Post Meta, Anthropic Decisions

July 11, 2025, 2:06 PM UTC

Two of the largest Hollywood studios, Disney and Universal City Studios, recently joined the growing list of copyright owners who’ve filed infringement actions against tech companies developing AI tools.

Getty Images, Dow Jones & Company, and The New York Times are some of the companies suing technology giants like Meta, Google, and NVIDIA, along with newer companies like Anthropic, Perplexity, and Midjourney.

Two recent California federal district court decisions in favor of tech companies who defended their actions under the fair use doctrine seem to indicate that the plaintiffs in ...

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