The Northern District of California grants final approval to the class-action settlement resolving copyright claims against Anthropic arising from its downloading of books from LibGen and PiLiMi, enters judgment, and dismisses the action with prejudice.
The Northern District of California preliminarily approved a class-action settlement between copyright owners and Anthropic PBC, along with the distribution and notice plans, while preserving objections and setting a later fairness hearing.
The Northern District of California granted Meta Platforms, Inc.’s cross-motion for partial summary judgment on its fair-use defense to the thirteen authors’ direct copyright-infringement claim based on using their books to train the Llama large language models, while denying the authors’ motion for partial summary judgment.
The court held that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train large language models was fair use, and that converting lawfully purchased print books into private searchable digital library copies was also fair use, but denied summary judgment as to millions of pirated books retained in a general-purpose library.
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