Anthropic has requested permission for an interlocutory appeal following a June order from the U.S. District Court regarding a lawsuit filed against it by authors claiming copyright infringement. The lawsuit alleges that Anthropic used hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books to train its AI chatbot, Claude, without consent. Despite a fair use ruling that partly favored Anthropic, the court has ordered a trial regarding certain pirated copies of works. The plaintiffs accuse Anthropic of significant copyright theft and attempts to conceal this infringement.
This Court should obtain guidance from the Ninth Circuit on the issue now instead of holding a trial that may need to be redone under a different legal framework-or may not be necessary at all.
An essential component of Anthropic's business model-and its flagship 'Claude' family of large language models (or 'LLMs')-is the largescale theft of copyrighted works.
Far from compensating the plaintiffs for their works, Anthropic has taken multiple steps to hide the full extent of its copyright theft.
Judge William Alsup issued an order on fair use that ultimately granted summary judgment for Anthropic that its use of the works at issue for training was a fair use.
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