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What are the allegations against Anthropic?

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Anthropic faced allegations of copyright infringement and piracy for downloading and using pirated versions of over 7 million books to train its AI models. The court found their use was fair use, but ruled obtaining the books from a shadow library was piracy. Anthropic settled for $1.5 billion.

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Anthropic will pay out $1.5B to settle allegations of book piracy

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  • Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion after being accused of copyright violations.
  • Authors alleged Anthropic used pirated copies of over 7 million books to train its AI. 21s
  • The court found Anthropic's use was fair use, but obtaining books from a shadow library was piracy. 53s
  • Potential penalties could have exceeded a trillion dollars under U.S. copyright law. 1m 12s
  • Legal experts expect the fair use argument to be important in future AI copyright cases. 1m 21s
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Anthropic will pay out $1.5B to settle allegations of book piracy
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Scripps News
18 hours ago
Anthropic will pay out $1.5B to settle allegations of book piracy

Anthropic was accused of copyright violations and piracy for downloading and using pirated versions of over 7 million books to train its AI models.

Anthropic will pay out $1.5B to settle allegations of book piracy
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Scripps News
18 hours ago
Anthropic will pay out $1.5B to settle allegations of book piracy

Authors alleged Anthropic downloaded known pirated versions of works, made copies, and fed those copies into its models.

Anthropic will pay out $1.5B to settle allegations of book piracy
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Scripps News
18 hours ago
Anthropic will pay out $1.5B to settle allegations of book piracy

The judge ruled Anthropic's use was fair use but found downloading from a shadow library constituted piracy.

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