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Title: Anthropic Bags Key 'Fair Use' Win For AI Platforms, But Faces Trial
Over Damages For Millions of Pirated Works

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/06/24/15192...

A federal judge has ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train
its Claude AI models constitutes fair use, but rejected the startup's defense
for downloading millions of pirated books to build a permanent digital
library. U.S. District Judge William Alsup granted partial summary judgment
to Anthropic in the copyright lawsuit filed by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles
Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson. The court found that training large
language models on copyrighted works was "exceedingly transformative" under
Section 107 of the Copyright Act. Anthropic downloaded over seven million
books from pirate sites, according to court documents. The startup also
purchased millions of print books, destroyed the bindings, scanned every
page, and stored them digitally. Both sets of books were used to train
various versions of Claude, which generates over $1 billion in annual
revenue. While the judge approved using books for AI training purposes, he
ruled that downloading pirated copies to create what Anthropic called a
"central library of all the books in the world" was not protected fair use.
The case will proceed to trial on damages related to the pirated library
copies.

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