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Judge’s “Fair Use” Ruling In Favor Of Anthropic Is Likely Just The Start Of Lengthy Copyright Battles Over AI Training Models
A judge’s decision that Anthropic‘s use of copyrighted books to train its AI models is a “fair use” is likely only the start of lengthy litigation to resolve one of the most hotly contested questions over the latest tech revolution. U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic’s use of the books was “exceedingly transformative,” […]
A judge’s decision that Anthropic ‘s use of copyrighted books to train its AI models is a “fair use” is likely only the start of lengthy litigation to resolve one of the most hotly contested questions over the latest tech revolution. The judge, however, did rule that Anthropic had to face a trail on the question of whether it is liable for downloading millions of pirated books in digital form off the internet, something it had to do in order to train its models. “We expect that courts taking note of the staggering scope of piracy will send a clear message to all AI model developers and operators that they must license the books and other commercial copyrighted content that they use and may not help themselves to these works on pirate and other websites,” the guild wrote.
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