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Federal judge reviewing $1.5B settlement between Anthropic and authors over alleged piracy of books for AI training.
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Japanese content creators and publishers are formally demanding OpenAI stop training its AI models on copyrighted content without permission, citing potential copyright violations under Japanese law as Sora enables unauthorized reproductions of copyrighted characters.
“Ruled that Anthropic did not violate copyright law by training AI on copyrighted books, though fined them for pirating the books.”
A federal judge halted Anthropic's $1.5 billion book piracy settlement, citing concerns about lack of transparency in the claims process and insufficient protections for affected authors.
“Rejected Anthropic's $1.5 billion book piracy settlement over concerns about the terms of the agreement for authors.”