AI Copyright Law 2025: Surprising Global Policy Shifts That Could Change Everything
A courtroom in California fills with stacks of lyrics. Across the country in New York, piles of newsprint become exhibits. The defendants aren’t rival publishers or songwriters, but AI companies whose chatbots and search engines are rewriting the rules of authorship.
Anthropic faces music publishers who say its Claude model swallowed thousands of songs for training. In March 2025, Judge Eumi Lee declined to issue an injunction, calling the publishers’ request too broad and their evidence of harm too thin. Meanwhile, Dow Jones and the New York Post are pursuing Perplexity, arguing its “answer engine” lifts entire news articles and repackages them in a way that diverts readers and revenue. In August 2025, Perplexity failed to persuade a court to dismiss or move the case, leaving publishers with momentum.
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