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Which dates and developments belong in the board briefing?

Data Reserve research deskSection 04Page 2 of 14Last updated 4 November 2026
Date Development and legal status Affected decision Recommended action
9 May 2025 Copyright Office released its Part 3 pre-publication training report. Its live study page still identifies that version; a policy report is not legislation or a court judgment. How a partner describes US training law Require case-specific reasoning and separate policy proposals from current duties. USCO
23 June 2025 Bartz district court distinguished training uses from the acquisition and retention of pirated library copies. This was a fact-specific summary-judgment ruling. Claims that training permission cures every acquisition problem Ask for provenance of the supplied copies, not merely a description of the intended training. Order
4 March 2026 The district court denied xAI's preliminary-injunction motion against California training-data transparency requirements. Developer requests for dataset descriptions and confidentiality carve-outs Treat the statute as a live compliance issue; do not describe preliminary relief as a final constitutional ruling. Court order
20 July 2026 Bartz settlement received final approval. Book-rights claims administration and accounting Check valid submitted claims and allocation records; do not market settlement proceeds as licensing revenue. Approval order
1 August 2026 California data brokers had to begin processing DROP deletion requests, subject to applicable rules and exceptions. Licensing personal-information datasets through intermediaries Assess whether the entity qualifies as a data broker and assign deletion-request operations. CPPA
2 August 2026 Commission enforcement of applicable GPAI obligations, including fines, began under its published timeline. Supplying developers placing models in the EU market Agree which dataset metadata can support the buyer's copyright policy and training summary. Commission
29 September 2026; docket stamp 30 September Third Circuit affirmed the relevant partial summary judgment in Reuters v. ROSS; the opinion is precedential. Specialist content used for a competing product Escalate competitive substitution and editorial-value questions to counsel. Opinion
2 August 2027 Commission guidance gives this compliance deadline for GPAI models placed on the market before 2 August 2025. Legacy-model licences with later updates Identify model and release dates; do not apply the legacy deadline to every new model. Commission

Sources cited on this page

  1. USCO ↗copyright.gov
  2. Order ↗govinfo.gov
  3. Court order ↗cdn.arstechnica.net
  4. Approval order ↗assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com
  5. CPPA ↗cppa.ca.gov
  6. Commission ↗digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
  7. Opinion ↗govinfo.gov