On Friday, both sides in the Bartz v. Anthropic lawsuit filed motions for the court to consider regarding preliminary approval of a settlement in the class action copyright infringement lawsuit filed against Anthropic last year by three book authors.
As readers are likely aware, the Bartz v. Anthropic AI lawsuit had a couple of major developments recently. Though the lawsuit was initially brought to address the legality of using copyrighted materials for training AI, the suit has now shifted its focus to Anthropic’s storage—without training use—of copies of books downloaded from LibGen and PiLiMi, two sites that share pirated copies of books and other materials.
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This is a guest post by Hana Khan-Tareen, who is a Legal Research Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center. We appreciate her insight on how authors can best protect their rights.
Yesterday, Authors Alliance filed an amicus brief, joined by EFF, ARL, ALA, and Public Knowledge, with the 9th Circuit in
Below is an interview with Alison Mudditt, CEO of PLOS (Public Library of Science) discussing the impact of AI on publishing
In an earlier post, we shared details from Judge Alsup’s decision on Anthropic’s motion for summary judgment in Bartz v.
Late last week Judge Alsup, presiding over the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright AI litigation, granted a motion to certify a class representing authors and rightsholders of nearly 7 million books. If you are a book author (or a publisher, or an heir to an author), you should be paying attention because there is a good chance that you could be included in this class.
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