Judges Side with AI Companies in Copyright Cases, but Leave Door Open for Future Challenges
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Book authors made the wrong arguments in Meta AI training case, judge says
Soon after a landmark ruling deemed that when Anthropic copied books to train artificial intelligence models, it was a "transformative" fair use, another judge has arrived at the same conclusion in a case pitting book authors against Meta. But that doesn't necessarily mean the judges are
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Key fair use ruling clarifies when books can be used for AI training
Artificial intelligence companies don't need permission from authors to train their large language models (LLMs) on legally acquired books, US District Judge William Alsup ruled Monday. The first-of-its-kind ruling that condones AI training as fair use will likely be viewed as a big win for AI
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A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books without authors' permission | TechCrunch
Federal judge William Alsup ruled that it was legal for Anthropic to train its AI models on published books without the authors' permission. This marks the first time that the courts have given credence to AI companies' claim that fair use doctrine can absolve AI companies from fault when they use
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Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books
A federal judge sided with Meta on Wednesday in a lawsuit brought against the company by 13 book authors, including Sarah Silverman, that alleged the company had illegally trained its AI models on their copyrighted works. Federal Judge Vince Chhabria issued a summary judgment -- meaning the judge
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What comes next for AI copyright lawsuits?
The use of copyrighted works to train models is at the heart of a bitter battle between tech companies and content creators. That battle is playing out in technical arguments about what does and doesn't count as fair use of a copyrighted work. But it is ultimately about carving out a space in which
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Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win -- but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims
While the startup has won its "fair use" argument, it potentially faces billions of dollars in damages for allegedly pirating over 7 million books to build a digital library. Anthropic has scored a major victory in an ongoing legal battle over artificial intelligence models and copyright, one that
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Meta Wins Blockbuster AI Copyright Case -- but There's a Catch
A federal judge ruled that Meta did not violate the law when it trained its AI models on 13 authors' books. Meta scored a major victory in a copyright lawsuit on Wednesday when a federal judge ruled that the company did not violate the law when it trained its AI tools on 13 authors' books without
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Judge OKs Anthropic's Use of Copyrighted Books in AI Training. That's Bad News for Creators
Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering social media, AI and online services. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in media and journalism. You can often find her with a novel and an iced coffee during her time off. Anthropic's use of copyright-protected
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Meta Scores AI Fair Use Court Victory, but Judge Warns Such Wins Won't Always Be the Case
Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering social media, AI and online services. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in media and journalism. You can often find her with a novel and an iced coffee during her time off. AI companies scored another victory in
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Meta Won Its AI Fair Use Lawsuit, but Judge Says Authors Are Likely 'to Often Win' Going Forward
AI companies scored another victory in court this week. Meta on Wednesday won a motion for partial summary judgment in its favor in Kadrey v. Meta, a case brought on by 13 authors alleging the company infringed on their copyright protections by illegally using their books to train its Llama AI
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Anthropic's AI Training on Books Is Fair Use, Judge Rules. Authors Are More Worried Than Ever
Claude maker Anthropic's use of copyright-protected books in its AI training process was "exceedingly transformative" and fair use, US senior district judge William Alsup ruled on Monday. It's the first time a judge has decided in favor of an AI company on the issue of fair use, in a significant
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Meta's AI copyright win comes with a warning about fair use
Jay Peters is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Meta won a major legal ruling in an AI copyright lawsuit brought by 13 authors alleging that the company illegally trained its AI systems on their work without
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Did AI companies win a fight with authors? Technically
Adi Robertson is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. In the past week, big AI companies have -- in theory -- chalked up two big legal wins. But things are not quite as
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How AI companies are secretly collecting training data from the web (and why it matters)
Like most people, my wife types a search into Google many times each day. We work from home, so our family room doubles as a conference room. Whenever we're in a meeting, and a question about anything comes up, she Googles it. This is the same as it's been for years. But what happens next has
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Judge: It's Fair Use to Train AI on Books You Bought, But Not Ones You Pirated
A large language model is as free to read as you and me, a federal judge held Tuesday -- unless that LLM's creators didn't pay for the books used to train that AI system. Judge William Alsup's Tuesday order turns aside part of a class-action lawsuit filed by book authors Andrea Bartz, Charles
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Judge rules mostly for Anthropic in AI book training case
Anthropic scores a qualified victory in fair use case, but got slapped for using over 7 million pirated copies One of the most tech-savvy judges in the US has ruled that Anthropic is within its rights to scan purchased books to train its Claude AI model, but that pirating content is legally out of
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The Anthropic Copyright Ruling Exposes Blind Spots on AI
In what is shaping up to be a long, hard fight over the use of creative works, round one has gone to the AI makers. In the first such US decision of its kind, District Judge William Alsup said Anthropic's use of millions of books to train its artificial-intelligence model, without payment to the
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More trouble for authors as Meta wins Llama scraping case
Authors are having a hard time protecting their works from the maws of the LLM makers Californian courts have not been kind to authors this week, with a second ruling going against an unlucky 13 who sought redress for use of their content in training AI models. On Monday, Anthropic won most of
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Anthropic wins key ruling on AI in authors' copyright lawsuit
June 24 (Reuters) - A federal judge in San Francisco ruled late 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
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Meta fends off authors' US copyright lawsuit over AI
June 25 (Reuters) - A federal judge in San Francisco ruled on Wednesday for Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab against a group of authors who had argued that its use of their books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system infringed their copyrights. U.S. District Judge
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Meta wins artificial intelligence copyright case in blow to authors
Meta's use of millions of books to train its artificial intelligence models has been judged "fair" by a federal court on Wednesday, in a win for tech companies that use copyrighted materials to develop AI. The case, brought by about a dozen authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Richard Kadrey,
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Judge rules Anthropic did not violate authors' copyrights with AI book training
Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, speaking on CNBC's Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21st, 2025. Anthropic's use of books to train its artificial intelligence model Claude was "fair use" and "transformative," a federal judge ruled late on Monday. Amazon-backed
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Judge rules Anthropic's AI training on copyrighted materials is fair use
Anthropic has a mixed result in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of authors who claimed the company used their copyrighted creations without permission. On the positive side for the artificial intelligence company, senior district judge William Alsup of the US District Court for the
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Judge rules AI company Anthropic didn't break copyright law but must face trial over pirated books
In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn't break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books. But the company is still on the hook and could now go to trial over how it acquired those books by
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Judge dismisses authors' copyright lawsuit against Meta over AI training
A federal judge on Wednesday sided with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in dismissing a copyright infringement lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the company of stealing their works to train its artificial intelligence technology. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabri was the
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Meta wins AI copyright case, but judge says others could bring lawsuits
Meta on Wednesday prevailed against a group of 13 authors in a major copyright case involving the company's Llama artificial intelligence model, but the judge made clear his ruling was limited to this case. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria sided with Meta's argument that the company's use of
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Meta wins AI copyright case filed by Sarah Silverman and other authors
The judge said the plaintiffs failed to show how Meta's actions could financially harm them. Federal Judge Vince Chhabria has ruled in favor of Meta over the 13 book authors, including Sarah Silverman, who sued the company for training its large language model on their published work without
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US Judge sides with AI firm Anthropic over copyright issue
A US judge has ruled that using books to train artificial intelligence (AI) software is not a violation of US copyright law. The decision came out of a lawsuit brought last year against AI firm Anthropic by three writers, a novelist, and two non-fiction authors, who accused the firm of stealing
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Court says AI training on books is fair use but Anthropic must face trial over pirated copies
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? A federal court has delivered a split decision in a high-stakes copyright case that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence development. US District Judge William
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Judge Rules AI Companies Can Use Some Copyrighted Works to Fuel Their Sludge
The legal decision sets a precedent for the pilfering of creative works for AI-fuel. This week, a federal judge handed AI companies a major win, potentially setting a legal precedent for the industry to plunder copyrighted materials to train their large language models. Anthropic, the large AI
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Federal court says copyrighted books are fair use for AI training
Anthropic didn't break the law when it trained its chatbot with copyrighted books, a judge said, but it must go to trial for allegedly using pirated books. A federal judge this week ruled that artificial intelligence company Anthropic did not break the law when it used copyrighted books to train
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Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not
A federal judge in California ruled Monday that Anthropic likely violated copyright law when it pirated authors' books to create a giant dataset and "forever" library but that training its AI on those books without authors' permission constitutes transformative fair use under copyright law. The
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Judge rules Anthropic can legally train AI on copyrighted material
However, the same judgment says that Anthropic can still be sued for piracy. One of the big gray areas in the burgeoning generative AI space is whether the training of AI models on copyrighted material without the permission of copyright holders violates copyright. This has led a group of authors
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In a first-of-its-kind decision, an AI company wins a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by authors
AI companies could have the legal right to train their large language models on copyrighted works -- as long as they obtain copies of those works legally. That's the upshot of a first-of-its-kind ruling by a federal judge in San Francisco on Monday in an ongoing copyright infringement case that
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Federal Judge Gives AI Companies a Landmark 'Fair Use' Victory
American artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, which develops large language models competing with platforms like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, has won a key ruling in a United States federal court. A federal judge ruled this week that AI developers can train AI models on
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Anthropic did not breach copyright when training AI on books without permission, court rules
Judge says firm made 'fair use' of literature but that storage of pirated books in central library constituted infringement A US judge has ruled that a tech company's use of books to train its artificial intelligence system - without permission of the authors - did not breach copyright law. A
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Meta wins AI copyright lawsuit as US judge rules against authors
Writers accused Facebook owner of breach over using books without permission to train its AI system Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has won the backing of a judge in a copyright lawsuit brought by a group of authors, in the second legal victory for the US artificial intelligence industry this week. The
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Judge in 'Kadrey v. Meta' AI copyright case rules for Meta, against authors
Meta's victory is a setback for creatives, but the fight is far from over. Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; breakermaximus / MileA / iStock / Andrea Izzotti / iStock Editorial / Getty / Meta Meta just won a major ruling in a landmark case about how copyright law and fair use applies to AI
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The 'Kadrey v. Meta' fair use ruling is just the start of a long, complex AI copyright battle
On Wednesday, the judge in the landmark AI copyright case Kadrey, et al. v. Meta Platforms Inc. ruled in Meta's favor. And U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria seemed to do so reluctantly, calling his own ruling "in significant tension with reality." Thirteen authors, including Sarah Silverman,
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AI training is 'fair use' federal judge rules in Anthropic copyright case
A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that training an AI model on copyrighted works without specific permission to do so was not a violation of copyright law. U.S. District Judge William Alsup said that AI company Anthropic could assert a "fair use" defense against copyright claims for
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Courts say AI training on copyrighted material is legal
A ruling in a U.S. District Court has effectively given permission to train artificial intelligence models using copyrighted works, in a decision that's extremely problematic for creative industries. Content creators and artists have been suffering for years, with AI companies scraping their sited
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US judge sides with Meta in AI training copyright case
A US judge on Wednesday handed Meta a victory over authors who accused the tech giant of violating copyright law by training Llama artificial intelligence on their creations without permission. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco ruled that Meta's use of the works to train its AI
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US judge backs using copyrighted books to train AI
A US federal judge has sided with Anthropic regarding training its artificial intelligence models on copyrighted books without authors' permission, a decision with the potential to set a major legal precedent in AI deployment. District Court Judge William Alsup ruled on Monday that the company's
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Anthropic's landmark copyright ruling is a victory for the AI industry -- but the company is still on the hook for piracy claims
In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn't break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books. But the company is still on the hook and must now go to trial over how it acquired those books by
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Anthropic Scores Partial Victory in Copyright Case Over AI Training Data - Decrypt
OpenAI and Meta face similar author-led lawsuits over the use of copyrighted works to train AI models. AI firm Anthropic has won a key legal victory in a copyright battle over how artificial intelligence companies use copyrighted material to train their models, but the fight is far from
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Meta and OpenAI Use of Copyrighted Books for Training AI Was Fair Use: Federal Judge - Decrypt
Chhabria said Meta prevailed only because the authors failed to present strong arguments and evidence. A federal judge delivered a significant blow to authors suing tech giants over AI training this week. The judge ruled that Meta's use of copyrighted books to train its artificial intelligence
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US judge rules that Anthropic's use of copyrighted content to train AI was fair use, but pirating books is step too far
The UK's Data (Use and Access) Bill has now passed, without the amendment that would've required AI tools to declare the use of copyrighted material, or any provision for copyright holders to 'opt-out' of their work being used as training data. The whole thing has left me wondering if there'll ever
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US judge sides with Meta in AI training copyright case
San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - A US judge on Wednesday handed Meta a victory over authors who accused the tech giant of violating copyright law by training Llama artificial intelligence on their creations without permission. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco ruled that
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Meta wins AI copyright suit before it could go to a jury as the 'plaintiffs made the wrong arguments'
A landmark case on use of copyright materials by AI could be on the horizon, but the arguments weren't strong enough here. This week has been a weird one for AI copyright lawsuits. Antrophic just won a suit to use copyrighted content, but pirating that content first is indeed illegal. Meta,
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Meta and Anthropic win key verdicts in US AI copyright cases
Leading tech companies won a few verdicts this week in US artificial intelligence (AI) copyright lawsuits. Federal judges sided with Facebook parent Meta Platforms and AI company Anthropic in two separate verdicts. The case against Meta was brought by a group of authors who accused the company of
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Anthropic wins key AI copyright case, but remains on the hook for using pirated books
Alain Sherter is a senior managing editor with CBS News. He covers business, economics, money and workplace issues for CBS MoneyWatch. Anthropic has won a major legal victory in a case over whether the artificial intelligence company was justified in hoovering up millions of copyrighted books to
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US judge backs using copyrighted books to train AI
San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - A US federal judge has sided with Anthropic regarding training its artificial intelligence models on copyrighted books without authors' permission, a decision with the potential to set a major legal precedent in AI deployment. District Court Judge William
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Federal judge rules copyrighted books are fair use for AI training
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, right, and Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger talk after unveiling Claude 4 during the Code with Claude conference on May 22 in San Francisco.Don Feria / AP Content Services for Anthropic A federal judge has sided with Anthropic in a major copyright ruling, declaring
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Anthropic's AI copyright 'win' is more complicated than it looks
Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted material for training was fair use. His decision carries weight. "Authors cannot rightly exclude anyone from using their works for training or learning as such," Alsup
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Anthropic Proves in Court Using Copyright Content for AI Training is Fair | AIM
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train its AI system constitutes fair use under US copyright law. Judge William Alsup found that Anthropic's AI training was "exceedingly transformative", as the company used the texts to analyse writing, extract
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Meta comes out winner in AI copyright case against authors
A U.S. judge sided with Meta Platforms Inc. today in an AI copyright lawsuit brought by 13 authors who claimed the social media firm had illegally trained its AI systems on their work without permission. This is the second major AI copyright case this week, with both decisions in favor of the AI
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AI and copyright - Meta and Anthropic declare Pyhrric victories, but may still lose the war
Two of the copyright lawsuits against US AI companies, Meta and Anthropic, have reached summary judgements, each of which is being presented as a win by the vendors and their online supporters. However, the victories this week are partial, flawed, and Pyrrhic, in that they do not constitute
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Judge sides with Anthropic in landmark AI copyright case, but orders it to go on trial over piracy claims - SiliconANGLE
Judge sides with Anthropic in landmark AI copyright case, but orders it to go on trial over piracy claims Anthropic PBC scored a major victory for itself and the broader artificial intelligence industry today when a federal judge ruled that it hasn't broken the law by training its chatbot Claude
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Judge dismisses authors' copyright lawsuit against Meta over AI training
A federal judge on Wednesday sided with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in dismissing a copyright infringement lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the company of stealing their works to train its artificial intelligence technology. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabri was the
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Anthropic wins ruling on AI training in copyright lawsuit but must face trial on pirated books
In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn't break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books. But the company is still on the hook and must now go to trial over how it acquired those books by
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Anthropic wins ruling on AI training in copyright lawsuit but must face trial on pirated books
In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn't break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books. But the company is still on the hook and must now go to trial over how it acquired those books by
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Judge dismisses authors' copyright lawsuit against Meta over AI training
A federal judge on Wednesday sided with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in dismissing a copyright infringement lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the company of stealing their works to train its artificial intelligence technology. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabri was the
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Meta wins AI copyright fight with authors
A federal judge in California ruled in favor of Meta regarding a lawsuit initiated by 13 book authors, including Sarah Silverman, concerning the alleged unauthorized use of their copyrighted works for training artificial intelligence models. Federal Judge Vince Chhabria issued a summary judgment,
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Big Tech Wants to Take Your Work to Feed Its Bots. These Lawsuits Might Let Them.
Are you sure you want to unsubscribe from email alerts for Nitish Pahwa? Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Last week, two different federal judges in the Northern District of California made legal rulings
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Anthropic Wins Key Ruling on AI in Authors' Copyright Lawsuit
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
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Judge Dismisses Authors' Copyright Lawsuit Against Meta Over AI Training
A federal judge on Wednesday sided with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in dismissing a copyright infringement lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the company of stealing their works to train its artificial intelligence technology. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabri was the
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Anthropic wins ruling on AI training in copyright lawsuit but must face trial on pirated books
In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn't break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books. But the company is still on the hook and must now go to trial over how it acquired those books by
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Anthropic Wins Key US Ruling on AI Training in Authors' Copyright Lawsuit
The proposed class action is one of several lawsuits brought by authors 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 US copyright law. Siding with tech companies on a pivotal
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Judge Rules in Favor of Meta, Against Authors Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, in AI Copyright Case
The judge said the authors failed to show "significant market harm" due to Meta training its AI models on their copyrighted works. A district judge sided with tech giant Meta on Wednesday in a major copyright infringement case, Richard Kadrey, et al. v. Meta Platforms Inc. It marks the second time
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Federal Judge Rules It's Legal to Train AI on Copyrighted Books, Marking Major Win for AI Companies
A federal judge ruled for the first time that it was legal for $61.5 billion AI startup, Anthropic, to train its AI model on copyrighted books without compensating or crediting the authors. U.S. District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco stated in a ruling filed on Monday that Anthropic's use
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What Do Meta and Anthropic's 'Fair Use' Wins Mean for A.I. Copyright Cases?
Fair use rulings favor A.I. firms Meta and Anthropic, yet concerns over piracy and creative market impact remain unresolved. As generative A.I. tools continue to proliferate at a rapid pace, lawsuits from content creators concerned about how these systems are trained have followed just as swiftly.
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Anthropic wins key ruling on AI in authors' copyright lawsuit
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled late Monday that Anthropic's use of books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system was legal under US copyright law. Siding with tech companies on a pivotal question for the AI industry, US District Judge William Alsup said Anthropic
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US judge backs using copyrighted books to train AI
A US federal judge has sided with Anthropic regarding training its artificial intelligence models on copyrighted books without authors' permission, a decision with the potential to set a major legal precedent in AI deployment. Tremendous amounts of data are needed to train large language models
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Judge Dismisses Authors' Copyright Lawsuit Against Meta Over AI Training
A group of authors accused Meta Platforms of stealing their works to train its artificial intelligence technology. A federal judge on Wednesday sided with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in dismissing a copyright infringement lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the company of stealing their
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Judge dismisses authors' copyright lawsuit against Meta over AI training
The Wednesday ruling from US District Judge Vince Chhabria was the second in a week from San Francisco's federal court to dismiss major copyright claims from book authors against the rapidly developing AI industry. A federal judge sided with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in dismissing a copyright
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US judge sides with Meta in AI training copyright case
Musicians, book authors, visual artists and news publications have sued various AI companies that used their data without permission or payment. AI companies generally defend their practices by claiming fair use, arguing that training AI on large datasets fundamentally transforms the original
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Judge Rules Anthropic's AI Training As Fair Use, But Authors Can Still Sue Over Pirated Books; Separate Trial Will Decide Infringement And Damages
With the rise of generative AI, there seems to be an issue of blurring boundaries when it comes to original content and reproduced content, and the economic threat it tends to pose to creative professionals. This controversy is especially applicable when it comes to training AI models like ChatGPT
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U.S. judge rules for Meta in AI training copyright case but says it isn't lawful
A U.S. judge on Wednesday handed Meta a victory over authors who accused the technology giant of violating copyright law by training Llama artificial intelligence on their creations without permission. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco ruled that Meta's use of the works to train
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Bad News for Movie Studios: Authors Just Lost on a Key Issue In a Major AI Lawsuit
Indie Films Are Increasingly Getting Tax Credits to Shoot in California as Features Flee That's how a federal court characterized Amazon-backed Anthropic's use of millions of books across the web to teach its artificial intelligence system. It's the first decision to consider the issue and will
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Sarah Silverman Loses Key Issue in AI Lawsuit Against Meta, But Creators Get a Silver Lining
Hollywood South? Texas Makes Its Bid With Major Film Incentive Expansion In most circumstances, it's illegal for companies to use copyright-protected material to train their AI systems without permission or payment, a court said, while finding that a lawsuit from Sarah Silverman against Meta
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Court Rules Anthropic Doesn't Need Permission to Train AI With Books | PYMNTS.com
According to the report, U.S. District Judge William Alsup found that Anthropic made "fair use" of books by writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson in training its Claude large language model (LLM). However, Alsup also ruled that Anthropic's copying and storage of more than
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Judge rules Anthropic's use of books to train AI model is fair use
June 24 (UPI) -- A judge ruled the Anthropic artificial intelligence company didn't violate copyright laws when it used millions of copyrighted books to train its AI. According to his ruling, U.S. District Judge William Alsup concluded Monday "that the training use was a fair use." However, that
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US Court Backs Anthropic in AI Training with Purchased Books
Using purchased copyrighted works to train AI models is fair use under the US Copyright Law, a US district court of Northern California ruled on June 23. This decision came in the court case between authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson and Anthropic. As part of the AI
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Meta Wins Copyright Case Over AI Training Materials
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California recently ruled in favour of Meta over a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by a group of thirteen authors. The plaintiffs had alleged that Meta not only used copyrighted material to train its Large Language Models (LLMs) but
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Is An AI Model Training On A Bought Copyright Work Fair Dealing?
A US district court recently held that using purchased copyrighted works is within the scope of the US copyright law. The decision came in a court case between Anthropic and a group of authors who claimed infringement for Anthropic's use of their copyrighted works in model training. To train its AI
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Anthropic wins key ruling on AI in authors' copyright lawsuit
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled late 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
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Big Win for Meta: AI Copyright Case Outcome Could Shape Industry Future
Judge Rejects Plaintiffs' Copyright Claims in Meta AI Case, Citing Fair Use Meta achieved a legal victory in a copyright lawsuit filed by 13 authors. The lawsuit claimed that Meta used their books without permission to train its artificial intelligence models, particularly LLaMA. The central issue
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Amazon-backed Anthropic wins key ruling in AI copyright lawsuit filed...
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 US copyright law. Siding with tech companies on a pivotal question for the AI industry, US District Judge William Alsup said Anthropic
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Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors' copyright lawsuit
(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
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Fair use vs copyright: Anthropic's case and its impact on AI training
Court decision reshapes AI copyright future, separating ethical data use from unlawful content scraping. In a groundbreaking legal decision that could redefine the boundaries of copyright law in the age of artificial intelligence, a U.S. federal court has ruled that Anthropic, the AI startup
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Meta wins AI copyright case filed by authors over book use
However, the judge made it clear that this ruling doesn't give Meta a free pass to use copyrighted content for AI training. Meta has won a major legal battle in a copyright lawsuit filed by 13 authors who claimed the company used their books without permission to train its artificial intelligence
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AI Companies Secure Victories in Copyright Lawsuits
In a series of landmark rulings, federal judges have sided with artificial intelligence (AI) companies Meta and Anthropic in lawsuits concerning the use of copyrighted books for AI model training. These decisions mark significant victories for the tech industry, potentially setting the stage for how future copyright cases involving AI might be adjudicated
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.Key Rulings and Their Implications
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U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled in favor of Anthropic, stating that using copyrighted works to train large language models (LLMs) was "quintessentially transformative" and "necessary" for building world-class AI models
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.Fair Use Doctrine and Its Application
The cases hinged on the interpretation of the fair use doctrine, a provision in copyright law that allows for limited use of copyrighted material without permission for purposes such as commentary, criticism, or research
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.Limitations and Future Challenges
Despite these victories for AI companies, the rulings leave room for future challenges. Judge Chhabria explicitly stated that his decision "does not stand for the proposition that Meta's use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful"
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Anthropic's Piracy Issue
While Anthropic won on the fair use argument for AI training, the company still faces a trial over allegations of book piracy. Judge Alsup ruled that Anthropic's downloading of millions of pirated books to build a "central library" did not constitute fair use and could result in damages
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.Market Harm and Future Considerations
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Both rulings emphasized the importance of demonstrating market harm in copyright cases. Judge Chhabria noted that markets for certain types of works, such as news articles, might be more vulnerable to indirect competition from AI outputs
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. This suggests that future cases, particularly those involving different types of copyrighted works, may yield different results5
.As the AI industry continues to evolve, these rulings provide important insights into how courts may approach the intersection of copyright law and AI technology. However, they also underscore the need for clearer legal frameworks to address the unique challenges posed by AI's use of copyrighted materials
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