Anthropic achieved a significant legal victory when a court ruled that training its AI models on copyrighted works falls under the fair use doctrine. This ruling may impact numerous ongoing AI copyright lawsuits in the U.S. Senior judge William Alsup stated that such training is transformative, allowing the use of copyrighted materials under specific conditions. The case was initiated by authors claiming Anthropic violated their copyrights, but the judgment emphasizes the transformative nature of AI tools, suggesting a precedent for future legal interpretations around AI and copyright.
"The training use was a fair use," senior district judge William Alsup wrote in a summary judgement order released late Monday evening.
"This is the first major ruling in a generative AI copyright case to address fair use in detail," says Chris Mammen, a managing partner at Womble Bond Dickinson who focuses on intellectual property law.
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