Big Tech wins legal battles, allowing AI to use copyrighted content for free. Judges rule that AI training with copyrighted material is fair use. Here's what this could mean for the future of the ...

A federal judge has sided with Anthropic in an AI copyright case, ruling that training — and only training — its AI models on legally purchased books without authors’ permission is fair use ...

Anthropic told the court that it made fair use of the books and that U.S. copyright law "not only allows, but encourages" its AI training because it promotes human creativity.

Anthropic used the books for its AI service Claude. There have been numerous lawsuits challenging the use of copyrighted material in AI training models. One of the most recent was a lawsuit filed ...

The decision, filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, sets a precedent that training AI systems on copyrighted works constitutes fair use.

Turning a "hard corner" Key fair use ruling clarifies when books can be used for AI training In landmark ruling, judge likens AI training to schoolchildren learning to write.

However, the judge also pointed out some weak points in the ecosystem of Big Tech’s AI efforts and Meta’s arguments defending its actions as fair use. “This ruling does not stand for the ...

Back in February, I flew to Amsterdam to report on a high-stakes experiment the city had recently conducted: a pilot program for what it called Smart Check, which was its attempt to create an ...

A federal judge has sided with Anthropic in an AI copyright case, ruling that training — and only training — its AI models on legally purchased books without authors’ permission is fair use ...

U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic’s use of purchased books was “exceedingly transformative and was a fair use” but the company may have broken the law by using pirated ...