Technology,
Intellectual Property
Jan. 15, 2026
AI lawsuits shift from copyright to human harm
As courts move past IP disputes, the next wave of AI litigation is turning toward real-world harms--and testing whether traditional liability frameworks can hold tech companies accountable.
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Since the first rollout of the modern LLM, artificial
intelligence-based litigation has centered on one foundational question:
whether training large language models on copyrighted works without permission
violates U.S. copyright law. It's taken some time, but we're finally seeing
courts that are willing to answer that question.
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