A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books
10 months ago
- #AI
- #Copyright
- #Fair Use
- Federal judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic's use of published books to train AI models without authors' permission is legal under fair use doctrine.
- This ruling is a setback for authors, artists, and publishers who have sued AI companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Google over copyright infringement.
- Fair use doctrine, last updated in 1976, considers factors like purpose, commercial gain, and transformative nature of the work.
- Anthropic faced allegations of creating a 'central library' of books, many downloaded from pirate sites, which remains a legal issue for trial.
- Judge Alsup clarified that while training on copyrighted materials may be fair use, using pirated copies could still result in liability for damages.