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Maria Pallante

individualCredibility: 67%

Why this score? President and CEO of the Association of American Publishers and a former US Register of Copyrights; deep, precise copyright expertise, discounted because she leads a party in interest in AI training-data litigation.

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We applaud the court's final approval of this settlement, which represents an important victory in the larger battle to hold big tech accountable for its unscrupulous appropriation of intellectual and creative properties that clearly belong to authors and publishers.±

Context: Accurate that the court approved the settlement and that Martínez-Olguín's order condemned downloading from pirate sites. But Pallante went on to argue that fair use should not be extended to let tech companies copy copyrighted material for training — and the order decided nothing of the kind. It approved a negotiated settlement, expressly reasoning that "success at trial was not assured"; the only fair-use holding in the case is Alsup's, which found training on lawfully acquired books IS fair use. Characterising the approval as a verdict on fair use overstates what the document holds.