Authors v. Anthropic copyright piracy lawsuit speeds ahead
Aug 12 2025
The class action lawsuit filed against Anthropic charging the AI company with illegally using pirated books to train its large language models continue to unfold at a rapid pace. On July 31, Anthropic filed an appeal asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to overturn U.S. District Judge William Alsup’s July 17 ruling that three writers suing Anthropic for copyright infringement can represent all other authors whose books the AI company allegedly pirated to train its AI model as part of a class action.
Source: Publishers Weekly