Meta scored a fair use victory in a high-profile AI copyright battle. How will this affect similar cases?

On Wednesday, the judge in the landmark AI copyright case Kadrey, et al. v. Meta Platforms Inc. ruled in Meta’s favor. And U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria seemed to do so reluctantly, calling his own ruling “in significant tension with reality.”

Thirteen authors, including Sarah Silverman, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and …