Anthropic bought, cut, and scanned millions of used books for its "research library."
The company also downloaded over 7 million pirated books, the judge found.
The judge wrote that training Claude on copyrighted books it had purchased was fair use, but piracy wasn't.
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-cut-pirated-millions-used-books-train-claude-copyright-2025-6
David
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