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The earlier Anthropic case found that training was fair use. Anthropic got slammed for how they obtained the digital copies, not how they used them. > June 24
by rpdillon 1y ago
The earlier Anthropic case found that training was fair use. Anthropic got slammed for how they obtained the digital copies, not how they used them.
> June 24 (Reuters) - A federal judge in San Francisco ruled late on Monday that Anthropic's use of books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system was legal under U.S. copyright law.
Siding with tech companies on a pivotal question for the AI industry, U.S. District Judge William Alsup said Anthropic made "fair use", opens new tab of books by writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson to train its Claude large language model.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/anthropic-wins-key-ruling-ai-authors-copyright-lawsuit-2025-06-24/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/anthropic-wins-key-...
- nutjob2 1y agoThat hardly settles the fair use question. There are other cases that will address that question and will be appealed to higher courts where it will be settled, unless overridden by legislation.
- rpdillon 1y agoThe law lives. The current ruling is fair use. Yes, it could change, but it's not like no courts have looked at or ruled on this.