Groundbreaking Court Rulings Could Upend the Future of AI Training and Copyright—What You Need to Know Now
I’m also heartened to see that the court decided Anthropic should be held accountable for illegally downloading millions of books from websites that had stolen them. By downloading those books en masse, Anthropic had participated in a massive piracy scheme, perpetuating and expanding the illegal proliferation of unauthorized duplicates of copyrighted material. Copyright holders were entirely right to call “foul” on that behavior, and I’m grateful to see the court distinguishing carefully between fair and unfair uses within the same project by the same company. Going forward, this kind of thoughtful discrimination will help to create greater clarity in the always-murky arena of intellectual property rights and AI.