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Vince Chhabria

personCredibility: 85%

Why this score? US District Judge (N.D. Cal.); authored the Kadrey v. Meta fair-use ruling. Judicial statements are the ruling itself, including dicta.

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In most cases it will likely be illegal to copy copyrighted works to train generative AI without permission, because AI trained on those works can generate countless competing works and thereby dilute the market for the originals — so companies will generally need to pay for training rights.?

Context: Dicta in the Kadrey opinion articulating a ‘market dilution’ theory and predicting that unlicensed training will generally be held to require a licence in US courts (resolveBy 2030). As of this cycle US case law is split (contrast Bartz) and no appellate resolution has issued. The 31 July Munich ruling against Suno reaches that result, but under German and EU law, not US fair use — a foreign decision is not evidence for the specifically-US question this prediction turns on. Not due; unresolved.