How is this case different from the many other cases alleging copyright infringement against LLM companies, many also including allegations of piracy?
this list mentions copyright infringement allegations in Advance Local Media vs Cohere, Andersen vs Stability AI, Getty Images vs Stability AI, Kadrey vs Meta, and In re: OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation (a consolidation of 12 other cases).
Just a month ago, Anthropic and the rest of the industry were celebrating what looked like a landmark victory. Alsup had ruled that using copyrighted books to train an AI model — so long as the books were lawfully acquired — was protected as “fair use.” This was the legal shield the AI industry has been banking on, and it would have let Anthropic, OpenAI, and others off the hook for the core act of model training.
But Alsup split a very fine hair. In the same ruling, he found that Anthropic’s wholesale downloading and storage of millions of pirated books — via infamous “pirate libraries” like LibGen and PiLiMi — was not covered by fair use at all. In other words: training on lawfully acquired books is one thing, but stockpiling a central library of stolen copies is classic copyright infringement.
How is this case different from the many other cases alleging copyright infringement against LLM companies, many also including allegations of piracy?
this list mentions copyright infringement allegations in Advance Local Media vs Cohere, Andersen vs Stability AI, Getty Images vs Stability AI, Kadrey vs Meta, and In re: OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation (a consolidation of 12 other cases).