Source: Press Gazette

Press Gazette provides a detailed summary of major legal rulings worldwide concerning AI and copyright as of December 3, 2025. A significant development occurred in November 2025 when a US judge allowed a lawsuit by 14 news publishers against the Canadian AI start-up Cohere to proceed, finding sufficient allegations that the AI's outputs were "quantitatively and qualitatively similar" to copyrighted news content. In contrast, Getty Images faced a setback in the UK, where the High Court found no evidence that Stability AI's model training took place within the UK jurisdiction, leading to the dismissal of key claims.

The article also highlights a victory for the German music rights society GEMA in November 2025, where a Munich court ruled that OpenAI's training on song lyrics breached copyright law, rejecting the "text and data mining" defense. However, in the US, authors faced defeats in cases against Meta and Anthropic in June 2025, with judges ruling that the use of books for training AI models constituted "fair use" and was transformative. These mixed rulings illustrate the complex and evolving legal battleground as publishers and creators seek to protect their intellectual property from unauthorized use by AI companies.