Meta and Anthropic win key verdicts in US AI copyright cases

By&nbspEuronews pinch AP

Published connected 26/06/2025 - 10:12 GMT+2•Updated 12:07

Leading tech companies won a fewer verdicts this week successful US artificial intelligence (AI) copyright lawsuits.

Federal judges sided pinch Facebook genitor Meta Platforms and AI institution Anthropic successful 2 abstracted verdicts.

The lawsuit against Meta was brought by a group of authors who accused nan institution of stealing their useful to train its AI technology. The Anthropic lawsuit decided that nan company's AI Claude didn't break copyright rules by training connected millions of copyrighted books.

US District Judge Vince Chhabria recovered that nan 13 authors who sued Meta "made nan incorrect arguments," truthful nan lawsuit sewage thrown retired - but that doesn't mean nan usage of copyright materials is lawful.

In his 40-page ruling, Chhabria many times said Meta and different AI companies person turned into serial copyright infringers arsenic they train their exertion connected books and different useful created by humans.

“This ruling does not guidelines for nan proposition that Meta’s usage of copyrighted materials to train its connection models is lawful,” Chhabria wrote.

Earlier this week, US District Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic didn’t break nan rule but nan institution must still spell to proceedings because it obtained those books from pirate websites alternatively of buying them.

But nan existent process of an AI strategy distilling from thousands of written useful to beryllium capable to nutrient its ain passages of matter qualified arsenic “fair use” nether US copyright rule because it was “quintessentially transformative,” Alsup wrote.

Books are important sources of information needed to build ample connection models.

In nan title to outdo each different successful processing nan astir precocious AI chatbots, a number of tech companies person turned to online repositories of stolen books that they tin get for free.