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Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge

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393 points pyman | 3 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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bgwalter ◴[07 Jul 25 14:38 UTC] No.44490836[source]▶
Here is how individuals are treated for massive copyright infringement:

https://investors.autodesk.com/news-releases/news-release-de...

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JimDabell ◴[07 Jul 25 15:44 UTC] No.44491536[source]▶
> illegally copying and selling pirated software

This is very different to what Anthropic did. Nobody was buying copies of books from Anthropic instead of the copyright holder.

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1. armada651 ◴[07 Jul 25 17:44 UTC] No.44492825[source]▶
I wouldn't be so sure about that statement, no one has ruled on the output of Anthropic's AI yet. If their AI spits out the original copy of the book then it is practically the same as buying a book from them instead of the copyright holder.

We've only dealt with the fairly straight-forward legal questions so far. This legal battle is still far from being settled.

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2. KoolKat23 ◴[07 Jul 25 18:06 UTC] No.44493071[source]▶
It is extremely likely this will be declared fair use in the end.

There's already one decision on a competitor.

It makes sense, if you think of how the model works.

3. cmiles74 ◴[07 Jul 25 19:35 UTC] No.44493863[source]▶
It’s very unlikely that Claude will verbatim reproduce an entire book from its training corpus. If that’s the bar, they are pretty safe in my opinion.