In re Google: The Copyright Case Rewriting AI's Legal Foundation

What In re Google establishes institutionally is a test case for whether existing copyright law can carry the weight the AI training dispute has placed on it — and the answer the Northern District will eventually give is already being preemptively contested by both sides of a debate that once had no overlap. The case is not primarily about what AI generates; it is about what AI consumed to become generative. That distinction matters because the copyright vacuum Harness IP identifies — the gap between what the statute covers and…