This week, Anthropic’s use of copyrighted works to train its Claude AI model was ruled a fair use. Further, the court documents revealed that they destroyed millions of books to do so. In another fair use case, this time with Meta, Llama’s use of copyrighted works was adjudged to be fair use. However, it may still have liability for torrenting the files at issue. Finally, I liked security expert Bruce Schneier’s essay on integrity.
AI and Fair Use – Anthropic
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/key-fair-use-ruling-clarifies-when-books-can-be-used-for-ai-training/
- https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/
- https://www.theverge.com/news/692015/anthropic-wins-a-major-fair-use-victory-for-ai-but-its-still-in-trouble-for-stealing-books
- https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/26/judge-alsup-training-ai-on-copyrighted-works-fair-use-building-pirate-libraries-not-so-much/
AI and Fair Use – Meta
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/book-authors-made-the-wrong-arguments-in-meta-ai-training-case-judge-says/
- https://mashable.com/article/kadrey-v-meta-judge-rules-against-plaintiffs
- https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/26/two-judges-same-district-opposite-conclusions-the-messy-reality-of-ai-training-copyright-cases/
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/judge-rejects-metas-claim-that-torrenting-is-irrelevant-in-ai-copyright-case/
The Age of Integrity by Bruce Schneier