The penalty cost for pirating copyrighted works to train AI bots could exceed $1 trillion, which could scare AI firms into ...

Two federal judges in the same courthouse came to different opinions on whether AI firms are breaching copyrights, signaling ...

The first-of-its-kind ruling that condones AI training as fair use will likely be viewed as a big win for AI companies, but it also notably put on notice all the AI companies that expect the same ...

Anthropic noted statutory damages for the use of millions of works could be “ruinous,” but District Judge William Alsup said, ...

On July 17, 2025, US District Court Judge William Alsup approved a class certification against Anthropic for copyright infringement.

In his ruling, Alsup claimed that, by training its LLM without the authors’ permission, Anthropic did not infringe on copyrighted materials because the work it produced was, in his eyes, original. He ...

Judge William Alsup determined that Anthropic training its AI models on purchased copies of books is fair use.

A California federal judge ruled on Thursday that three authors suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic for copyright ...

While the startup has won its “fair use” argument, it potentially faces billions of dollars in damages for allegedly pirating ...

A federal judge has granted class certification in a copyright complaint levied against Anthropic by authors Andrea Bartz, ...

A federal judge in San Francisco ruled late on Monday that Anthropic's use of books without permission to train its ...

There are dozens of similar copyright lawsuits working through the courts right now, with cases filed against all the top ...