For months now, a critical question has been playing out in the courts, the Copyright Office and Congress: When tech companies use large amounts of copyrighted works to train their AI models without permission or payment to the copyright holders, is that fair use or illegal infringement?

And why should fashion — an industry that has traditionally relied more on trademark law than copyright protection — care about the latest copyright debate?

In this episode, entertainment and technology attorney Jonathan Handel examines why the AI copyright battle matters to fashion and entertainment creatives, covering legal and policy developments across all three branches of the federal government — including the bipartisan AI Accountability and Personal Data Protection Act by Senators Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal.

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