Anthropic sets up a high -profile copyright petition filed by book authors


Anthropology has reached The preliminary settlement in a class action petition filed by a group of prominent writers, which represents the most important cases of printing rights in history. This moves anthropology to prevent what can be the result of a devastating financial result in court.

According to the legal case published on Tuesday, the settlement agreement is expected to be followed in more detail on September 3. The lawyers did not respond to the comment requests immediately for the plaintiffs. Anthropology refused to comment.

In 2024, three authors of the book, Andre Bartz, Charles Graber and Kirk Wallace Johnson, sued anthropology, claiming that the startup had illegally used its work to teach its artificial intelligence models. In June, California District Court Judge William Allasop issued a summary sentence Bartz against anthropology This was mainly accompanied by anthropology, and found that the company used the books was “fair use” and therefore legal.

But the judge ruled that the way that anthropology obtained some of the works was formed through the so -called Shadow libraries, including a infamous site called Libgen. Allasop ruled that the authors of the book can still do anthropology to trial in a class action for piracy. The Law Exhibition was scheduled to begin in December.

According to the US Copyright Act, legal damage to this type of piracy begins at $ 750 per violated task. Since the library of books collected by anthropic, it was thought to have approximately 7 million works, the Artificial Intelligence Company potentially faced billions of dollars for billions of dollars, possibly more than $ 1 trillion.

“This is a stunning thing about how anthropic fights in two courts with teeth and nails in the case, and the company has recently hired a new test team,” says Edward Lee, a law professor at the University of Santa Clara. “But they had a defensive defense in the case of the judgment of Judge Allasope. So anthropology was at risk of legal damage in the” Day of Resurrection “.”

Most writers who may have been part of the class measures have just begun to receive a notice that was eligible for the company. The Writers’ Association, a business group on behalf of professional authors, warned the authors that they may be eligible earlier this month, and lawyers were due to submit a “list of damaged works” to the plaintiffs on September 1. This means that many of these writers were not confidential for the negotiations.

“The big question is whether there is a significant uprising from within the author’s class after unveiling of the settlement conditions,” says James Grimman, a professor of digital law and the Internet at the University of Cornell. “This is a very important barometer from where the emotions of the right -prone are.”

Anthropic still faces a number of legal challenges related to the right to print. One of the most important differences includes a group of important recordings, including the World Music Group, which claims the company illegally educated its artificial intelligence programs with the right to print poems. The plaintiffs have recently corrected their case to correct their case to claim that Anthropic has used the BitTorrent File Sharing Service to illegally load the songs.

The settlements do not determine the legal background, but the details of the case are likely to be closely considered because dozens of other cases of printing AI with high specifications continue to be lost through the courts.

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