FSF Threatens Anthropic over Infringed Copyright: Share Your LLMs Freel
8 hours ago
- #Copyright Infringement
- #Free Software Foundation
- #Large Language Models
- The FSF received a notice regarding the settlement in the copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic.
- The lawsuit claims Anthropic infringed copyright by using works from Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror datasets to train large language models (LLMs).
- The district court ruled that using books to train LLMs was fair use but left the legality of downloading them for trial.
- The FSF holds copyrights to many GNU Project programs and books, including 'Free as in freedom: Richard Stallman's crusade for free software', published under the GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL).
- The FSF urges LLM developers like Anthropic to provide complete training inputs, models, and source code to users to ensure freedom.
- If the FSF were to participate in such lawsuits and find copyright violations, they would demand user freedom as compensation.