United States of America: Lawsuit relating to Artificial Intelligence training on copyrighted books (Bartz et al. v Anthropic)
Progress
Current status
under investigation
05 Sep 2025 under investigation
23 Jun 2025 under investigation
Scope
Implementers
United States of America
Policy Area
Intellectual property
Policy Instrument
Copyright protection regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
ML and AI development
Government Branch
judiciary
Government Body
court
Implementation Level
national
Timeline of events
Anthropic reached a USD 1.5 billion settlement in a class action lawsuit addressing allegations that it used copyrighted books to train its AI model (Bartz et al. v. Anthropic PBC) (No. C 24-05417 WHA)
On 5 September 2025, Anthropic reached a USD 1.5 billion settlement in the class action lawsuit alleging that it downloaded books from the databases Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror to train its large language models. As part of the settlem…
SourceEvent type
civil lawsuit
Action type
interim ruling
Government branch
judiciary
Government body
court
District Court for the Northern District of California issued order finding that Artificial Intelligence training with copyrighted works qualifies as fair use in certain circumstances (Bartz et al. v. Anthropic) (Case 3:24-cv-05417-WHA)
On 23 June 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order in Bartz et al. v. Anthropic, finding that the use of copyrighted works to train generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) models qualifies as tr…
SourceEvent type
civil lawsuit
Action type
interim ruling
Government branch
judiciary
Government body
court