The judge also ruled fair use law allowed Anthropic to take purchased physical books and scan them into a digital “research library” that can be used to train its models. “However, Anthropic ...

A federal judge handed Meta a major win Tuesday in a closely watched copyright case over its use of books to train large language models, but the ruling stopped well short of giving tech companies ...

The ruling stems from a case filed last year by three authors in federal court. After Anthropic used copies of their books to train Claude, Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson ...

Anthropic told the court that it made fair use of the books and that U.S. copyright law "not only allows, but encourages" its AI training because it promotes human creativity.

June 25 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O) has been hit with a lawsuit by a group of authors who claim the company used their books without permission to train its Megatron artificial intelligence model.