Here are the significant books, films and characters joining the list of works in the public domain on Jan. 1, 2026.

In 2025, three federal district court decisions began to sketch the boundaries of what counts as fair use in the context of AI training.

Anthropic has settled a civil suit and agreed to pay authors $1.5B in a landmark copyright case involving the use of training artificial intelligence models on pirated copies of books. Anthropic, ...

(Reuters) -Apple was hit with a lawsuit in California federal court by a pair of neuroscientists who say that the tech company misused thousands of copyrighted books to train its Apple Intelligence ...

Investigative journalist John Carreyrou, widely known for exposing fraud at Silicon Valley blood-testing startup Theranos and ...

Apple was hit with a lawsuit in California federal court by a pair of neuroscientists who say that the tech company misused thousands of copyrighted books to train its Apple Intelligence artificial ...

Two authors have filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of infringing on their copyright by using their books to train its artificial intelligence model without their consent. The ...

In one of the largest copyright settlements involving generative artificial intelligence, Anthropic AI, a leading company in the generative AI space, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a ...

Best-selling authors Michael and Kathleen Gear had 60 of their books illegally downloaded and used as training tools for an ...

A New York Times journalist has sued Google, OpenAI, xAI and other AI firms, alleging they used copyrighted books without ...

Investigative reporter John Carreyrou, known for unveiling Theranos fraud, has filed a lawsuit against major AI companies, including xAI and Google, for allegedly using copyrighted books without ...