Enjoy, at least for a brief moment, that AI company Anthropic’s legal posturing expressing outright existential panic, as it filed a petition in early August with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for permission to appeal the certification of a broad class of copyright owners of “any book in the versions of” the pirate libraries LibGen or PiLiMi downloaded by Anthropic. This frail start-up tells the Court of Appeals it may be forced into massive settlement of billions of dollars over their theft of 7 million illegally pirated books, pleading that, “This case presents a quintessential ‘death-knell’ situation justifying immediate […]
