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Big Tech's Court Wins in AI Copyright Cases Could Upend the Internet as We Know It
UNITED STATES, JUN 25 – U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled Anthropic's AI training on copyrighted books is fair use but denied protection for using over seven million pirated copies, with a trial set for December.
- On June 23, Judge William Alsup ruled that training Anthropic's Claude on copyrighted books qualifies as fair use under U.S. law, influencing AI copyright cases.
- Last summer, authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson sued Anthropic over alleged large-scale piracy of their copyrighted books for AI training.
- Judge Alsup confirmed AI outputs are 'quintessentially transformative,' noting models train to create something different from copyrighted works.
- Despite Alsup ruling that training AI on copyrighted works is fair use, Anthropic must face a December trial over illegal pirated copies, risking significant damages.
- Beyond this case, Alsup's fair use ruling on AI training on copyrighted books sets a legal precedent influencing dozens of similar lawsuits and shaping future AI copyright disputes.
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Big Tech's court wins in AI copyright cases could upend the internet as we know it
Meta CEO Mark ZuckerbergJosh Edelson/AFP via Getty ImagesThis post originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter.Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here.Big Tech just won big in the battle over data and copyright. The implications for business, publishing, and the future of the web are profound.Two recent US court rulings, including one in favor of Anthropic's use of millions of books for AI training, have nudged the legal conse…
Federal Court Allows AI Training on Copyrighted Materials Under Fair Use, but Piracy Claims Loom Large
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