Intellectual Property
Jul. 28, 2025
Anthropic asks court to pause AI copyright class action
Anthropic seeks to pause a major copyright lawsuit over claims it illegally used millions of books to train its AI, Claude, arguing the case's class certification exposes it to massive liability.
Anthropic PBC asked a federal judge in San Francisco to pause proceedings to allow appeal of a class certification ruling in the high-stakes copyright case filed by authors who say the company's AI was wrongly trained on their work.
The motion filed on July 24 centers on Anthropic's argument that the classification order conflicts with other rulings in the Northern District of California, that the company would be prejudiced, and face billions of dollars in liability over ...
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