A federal judge in San Francisco ruled that Anthropic's use of books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system was legal under U.S. copyright law.
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Siding with tech companies on a pivotal question for the AI industry, U.S. District Judge William Alsup said Anthropic made "fair use" of books by writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson to train its Claude large language model. The proposed class action is one of several lawsuits brought by authors, news outlets and other copyright owners against companies including OpenAI, Microsoft and Meta over their AI training.
An Anthropic spokesperson said the court recognized that its AI training was "consistent with copyright's purpose in enabling creativity and fostering scientific progress."
Alsup also said, however, that Anthropic's copying and storage of more than 7 million pirated books in a "central library" infringed the authors' copyrights and was not fair use. The judge has ordered a trial in December to determine how much Anthropic owes for the infringement.
The fair use doctrine is a key legal defense for the tech companies, and Alsup's decision is the first to address it in the context of generative AI.
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