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Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors' copyright lawsuit

By Blake Brittain

Jun 25 2025 5:50AM

Use of books without permission is legal.

Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors' copyright lawsuit

A US federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that Anthropic's use of books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system was legal under US copyright law. Siding with tech companies on a pivotal question for the AI industry, US District Judge William Alsup said Anthropic made ...

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