AI Companies Can Use Copyrighted Books to Train Language Models, Judge Rules in Anthropic Case
https://www.thewrap.com/ai-companies-can-use-copyrighted-books-train-models-anthropic-claude/
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Anthropic bought, cut, and scanned millions of used books for its "research library."
The company also downloaded over 7 million pirated books, the judge found.
The judge wrote that training Claude on copyrighted books it had purchased was fair use, but piracy wasn't.
Mixed Anthropic Ruling Builds Roadmap for Generative AI Fair Use
Meta Secures Bittersweet Fair Use Victory in AI ‘Piracy’ Case
https://torrentfreak.com/meta-secures-bittersweet-fair-use-victory-in-ai-piracy-case-250626/
Judge Alsup: Training AI On Copyrighted Works? Fair Use. Building Pirate Libraries? Not So Much
Two Courts Rule On Generative AI and Fair Use - One Gets It Right
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/two-courts-rule-generative-ai-and-fair-use-one-gets-it-right
Anthropic Settles Major AI Copyright Suit Brought by Authors
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Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated chatbot training material
"The company has agreed to pay authors about $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 books covered by the settlement."