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Anthropic illegally trained Claude on copyrighted books, judge rules

A federal judge has ruled that Anthropic illegally used copyrighted books from Stanford professors to train its Claude models. While a settlement was reached in the Bartz v. Anthropic case, some authors, including Tobias Wolff, are pursuing separate lawsuits seeking greater damages and injunctions against future use of their works. The legal landscape for AI companies scraping copyrighted material for training remains uncertain, with numerous other infringement lawsuits pending. AI

IMPACT Sets precedent for AI training data legality and may increase costs for model developers.

RANK_REASON Legal ruling against a major AI company regarding copyright infringement for model training. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=1 ai=0.4]

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Anthropic illegally trained Claude on copyrighted books, judge rules

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    Anthropic illegally trained Claude with Stanford professors' books