Intellectual Property
Jun. 25, 2025
Judge allows Anthropic fair use of bought books, not pirated ones
U.S. District Judge William Alsup partially granted Anthropic's fair use motion for purchased books but set a Dec. 1 trial for copyright infringement claims involving 7 million pirated books used to train Claude.
Anthropic PBC said Tuesday that it disagreed with a federal judge's partial ruling on summary judgment that paves the way for a Dec. 1 trial on authors' copyright infringement claims related to use of more thaFn 7 million pirated copies of copyrighted books.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco partially granted Anthropic's motion for summary judgment for fair use for purchased, scanned and digitally stored copyrighted works used to train its AI-powered a...
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