A federal judge in San Francisco ruled late on Monday that Anthropic's use of books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system was legal under U.S. copyright law.
Siding with tech companies on a pivotal question for the AI industry, U.S. District Judge William Alsup said Anthropic made "fair use" of books by writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson to train its Claude large language model.
Alsup also said, however, that Anthropic's copying and storage of more than 7 million pirated books in a "central library" infringed the authors' copyrights and was not fair use. The judge has ordered a trial in December to determine how much Anthropic owes for the infringement.
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> Alsup also said, however, that Anthropic’s copying and storage of more than 7 million pirated books in a “central library” infringed the authors’ copyrights and was not fair use. The judge has ordered a trial in December to determine how much Anthropic owes for the infringement.
This is potentially huge. It could easily result in model training being forced to pay for acquisition for the purpose of training because copyright does not necessarily allow for changing mediums. If new works carry license pages that explicitly prohibit it’s use in training models, it could evolve the landscape in a healthy way where artists get paid for their work.
This feels bad
AI, where people can get the information in the book out, legal.
But what the internet archive did was illegal?
Noted: copyright law only applies to the poor.
Thank God! This is fantastic news.
That’s awful. How can they be serious with this? It’s literally stealing copyrighted material.