An Exception to the Exception:  Will Meta’s Pirated Book Training Pipeline and the Case for Prosecution Signal the End of Fair Use for AI

The Briefing: Anthropic, Copyright, and the Fair Use Divide

A federal judge has ruled that training Claude AI on copyrighted books—even without a license—was transformative and protected under fair use. But storing millions of pirated books in a permanent internal library? That crossed the line. In this episode of The Briefing, Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler break down this nuanced opinion and what this ruling means for AI developers and copyright owners going forward. Watch this episode on YouTube or lis…

An Exception to the Exception:  Will Meta’s Pirated Book Training Pipeline and the Case for Prosecution Signal the End of Fair Use for AI

A long hot summer for AI At the recent Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing titled “Too Big to Prosecute: Examining the AI Industry’s Mass Ingestion of Copyrights,” Chairman Josh Hawley and his colleagues drilled into a question many creators have been asking for months: How do AI giants like Meta steal the vast datasets they use to train their models? And why aren’t they all in jail? And jail was clearly on the mind of Senator Hawley and his c…