The federal judge has been on the anthropic side in the AI Copyright case governing this training – And only training – his AI models on legally purchased books without the consent of the authors is allowed to utilize. This is the first of its kind in favor of the AI industry, but it is essential, especially for physical anthropic books purchased and digitized.
Judge William Alsup from the northern district of California also says in his decision that the company must face a separate process for piruting “millions” of books from the Internet. The decision also does not apply to whether the results of the AI model violate the copyrights that are questioned in other related cases.
The lawsuit was filed by writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirka Wallace Johnson, who last year allow Anthropijko to say that the company trained the family of Claude Ai models on pirate material. This is a key decision that can affect how judges react to AI copyrights.
The ruling also applies to the Anthropica movement to buy copies of books, break their connections, cut pages and scan them into a centralized digital library used to train its AI models. The judge ruled that the digitization of a legally purchased physical book was a permitted utility, and the utilize of these digital copies for LLM training was transformed enough to also be allowed.
“The complaint of the authors is no different if they complained that the training of students to write well would cause an explosion of competitive works,” writes the judge ALSUP, adding that the copyright law “tries to develop original works authorship, and not protect authors from competition.”
Despite these winnings for anthropic, ALSUP judge writes that Anthropica’s decision to store millions of pirate copies of books in the company’s central library – even if some were not used for training – it is not considered permitted utilize. “The order is doubtful that any accused of violations can ever meet the explanation of the explanation why downloading source copies from pirate sites that he could buy or obtain in a different way available in accordance with the law He was reasonably necessary for any later use, “writes Alsup (emphasizing him).
Judge ALSUP claims that the court will conduct a separate trial in the case of pirate content used by Antropic, which will determine the resulting damage.