Anthropic Wins Fair Use Ruling in AI Copyright Battle
Anthropic’s AI book training method ruled fair use, but pirated content still poses legal risk.
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Anthropic Wins Fair Use Ruling in AI Copyright Battle Anthropic fair use victory marks a turning point in AI copyright law A groundbreaking court decision has given Anthropic a partial win in the ongoing legal battle over AI and copyright. At the heart of the ruling is whether training AI on physical books — legally purchased and then digitized — qualifies as fair use. Judge William Alsup, presiding over the Northern District of California, has ruled that Anthropic’s method of training its Claude AI models using legally acquired books is indeed transformative and therefore falls under fair use protections. However, the company still faces serious consequences for training or storing pirated books, with a separate trial on that issue looming. Image : Google This development addresses one of the most frequently asked questions in AI ethics and law: Can AI companies legally use books for training data? The short answer is yes — but only if the books were purchased lawfully and used in a transformative way, such as building a language model th…
