Just yesterday, a significant ruling from a federal judge in a copyright suit against Anthropic put the AI world on notice. The judge found that Anthropic was covered by the “fair use” doctrine for training its Claude AI models using copyrighted books that it bought and paid for, but not for the ones it used from a corpus of pirated book texts.
That could be bad news for pretty much all of the companies that trained large language models by using the many collected libraries of copyrighted texts that researchers have been sharing in the AI community.
The authors point to Microsoft’s own research papers’ description of using “the Pile,” a collection of pirated book texts (which contained the plaintiffs’ works).
It remains to be seen if this marks a flood of new copyright suits from creators against AI companies, in light of the Anthropic decision.
The authors are seeking $150,000 compensation for each alleged infringed work, as well as an injunction preventing Microsoft from using pirated works in the future, among other remedies.
Just yesterday, a significant ruling from a federal judge in a copyright suit against Anthropic put the AI world on notice. The judge found that Anthropic was covered by the “fair use” doctrine for training its Claude AI models using copyrighted books that it bought and paid for, but not for the ones it used from a corpus of pirated book texts.
That could be bad news for pretty much all of the companies that trained large language models by using the many collected libraries of copyrighted texts that researchers have been sharing in the AI community.
The authors point to Microsoft’s own research papers’ description of using “the Pile,” a collection of pirated book texts (which contained the plaintiffs’ works).
It remains to be seen if this marks a flood of new copyright suits from creators against AI companies, in light of the Anthropic decision.
The authors are seeking $150,000 compensation for each alleged infringed work, as well as an injunction preventing Microsoft from using pirated works in the future, among other remedies.
