United States of America: Lawsuit relating to Artificial Intelligence training on copyrighted books (Bartz et al. v Anthropic/Case No: 3:24-cv-05417)
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Judge approved final USD 1.5 billion settlement in class action lawsuit addressing allegations that Anthropic used pirated copyrighted books to train its AI model
On 20 July 2026, the US District Court for the Northern District of California granted final approval of the settlement in the class action lawsuit alleging that Anthropic downloaded books from Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror to train its …
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
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…
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
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…