Publishing news was dominated by lawsuits this year, particularly those related to AI. The biggest legal stories of 2025 involved tech’s mass copyright infringement of thousands of books to train LLMs. Luckily, for authors and publishers, there were some victories for copyright. Accordingly, we have broken up our roundup of our legal reporting this year into two sections, beginning with lawsuits concerning AI. First US judgement on AI copyright infringement In February, we saw the first judgment in the US on an AI copyright case when Thompson Reuters won its case against tech company Ross Intelligence. Ross Intelligence copied TR’s […]
