US EditionAnthropic settles class action from US authors alleging copyright infringement
Anthropic's settlement resolves a major AI copyright dispute involving millions of pirated books, avoiding potential damages exceeding billions under U.S. law, legal experts noted.
- On Tuesday, Anthropic reached a settlement with a group of book authors and filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, expecting to finalize the agreement September 3.
- The authors allege Anthropic acquired books by pirating at least 7 million works from Books3, Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror, later purchasing them to potentially reduce damages.
- In June, U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled Anthropic's conversion and distillation of books for Claude's training qualified as transformative fair use, marking a partial win amid ongoing appeals.
- The settlement will let Anthropic avoid a financially devastating court outcome, as the involved authors and the U.S. appeals court paused proceedings while finalizing the deal amid potential penalties over $1 trillion.
- This deal arrives as courts nationwide are seeing dozens of other AI copyright cases, including recent suits by Walt Disney Co. and Universal Pictures alleging Midjourney trained models on copyrighted material.
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