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Maria Pallante

personCredibility: 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: Overstated. The July 2026 order approved a negotiated settlement — expressly because "success at trial was not assured" — and decided no fair-use question. The only fair-use holding in the case is Alsup's, that training on lawfully acquired books IS fair use; the approval condemned pirated downloading, not training.