AI company Anthropic won a limited victory in the copyright infringement case brought against it by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson in the Northern District of California. Federal District Judge William Alsup granted Anthropic summary judgment for their use of copyrighted books to train their service Claude and its predecessors, finding it “was exceedingly transformative and was a fair use under Section 107 of the Copyright Act.” At the same time, however, Judge Alsup wrote that Anthropic’s downloading of millions of illegal, pirated copies of books for its central library and AI training was not remotely […]
