"Together, authors and publishers are sending a message to AI companies: You are not above the law, and our intellectual property isn't yours for the taking."
"Anthropic agreed to pay plaintiffs Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, Kirk Wallace Johnson, and MJ & KJ, Inc. and the Class what the plaintiffs called "the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history, larger than any other copyright class action settlement or any individual copyright case litigated to final judgment.""
"The order on fair use granted summary judgment for Anthropic that its use of the works at issue for training and its scanning of certain works from print-to-digital format were fair, but denied summary judgment for Anthropic that certain pirated library copies of the relevant works must be treated as training copies and ordered a trial with respect to the pirated copies to determine damages, including potentially for willfulness."
Plaintiffs Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, Kirk Wallace Johnson, and MJ & KJ, Inc. filed suit in August 2024 alleging Anthropic trained its Claude AI on hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books sourced without authorization. Anthropic agreed to a settlement described by plaintiffs as the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history. Judge William Alsup denied Anthropic's motion to stay proceedings and refused permission for interlocutory appeal after a June fair use order. The fair use order granted summary judgment that training uses and certain print-to-digital scanning were fair, but denied summary judgment regarding pirated library copies and ordered a trial to determine damages and potential willfulness. Plaintiffs filed a supplemental brief seeking preliminary approval and outlining a plan of distribution.
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