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A US federal judge on July 20, 2026, approved Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright lawsuit brought by authors who accused the AI startup of using pirated books to train its Claude models ...

A federal judge in California has issued a complicated pre-trial ruling in one of the first major copyright cases involving artificial intelligence training, finding that, while using legally acquired ...

A judge’s decision that Anthropic‘s use of copyrighted books to train its AI models is a “fair use” is likely only the start of lengthy litigation to resolve one of the most hotly contested questions ...

Meta and Anthropic received major copyright decisions this week. Getty Images for Unsplash+ As generative A.I. tools continue to proliferate at a rapid pace, lawsuits from content creators concerned ...

This is the first time a judge found that an AI company's use of copyrighted material is fair use. Claude maker Anthropic’s use of copyright-protected books in its AI training process was “exceedingly ...

For a regularly updated case tracker covering intellectual property and privacy-related lawsuits concerning GenAI (including more decisions addressing fair use), see Generative AI: Federal Litigation ...

Anthropic has scored a major victory in an ongoing legal battle over artificial intelligence models and copyright, one that may reverberate across the dozens of other AI copyright lawsuits winding ...