> If they had bought each book themselves would it be fair use? So this is only about the piracy?
The earlier ruling covered exactly that question:
- Anthropic downloaded many books (from LibGen and elsewhere). This piracy is what the current case is about, and is unrelated to the training.
- Separately, Anthropic bought and scanned a million used books. They trained the AI on this data. This was ruled as fair use, and is not involved in the current case.
The earlier ruling covered exactly that question:
- Anthropic downloaded many books (from LibGen and elsewhere). This piracy is what the current case is about, and is unrelated to the training.
- Separately, Anthropic bought and scanned a million used books. They trained the AI on this data. This was ruled as fair use, and is not involved in the current case.