{"id":650,"date":"2025-06-28T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/did-ai-companies-win-a-fight-with-authors-technically\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T12:30:00","slug":"did-ai-companies-win-a-fight-with-authors-technically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/did-ai-companies-win-a-fight-with-authors-technically\/","title":{"rendered":"Did AI companies win a fight with authors? Technically"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/STKS507_FTCxMETA_ANTITRUST_CVIRGINIA_D.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-none\">In the past week, big AI companies have &#8211; in theory &#8211; chalked up two big legal wins. But things are not quite as straightforward as they may seem, and copyright law hasn&rsquo;t been this exciting since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/politics\/666179\/maga-elon-musk-sacks-copyright-office-perlmutter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last month&rsquo;s showdown<\/a> at the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">First, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/692015\/anthropic-wins-a-major-fair-use-victory-for-ai-but-its-still-in-trouble-for-stealing-books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Judge William Alsup ruled<\/a> it was fair use for Anthropic to train on a series of authors&rsquo; books. Then, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/693437\/meta-ai-copyright-win-fair-use-warning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Judge Vince Chhabria dismissed<\/a> another group of authors&rsquo; complaint against Meta for training on <em>their<\/em> books. Yet far from settling the legal conundrums around modern AI, these rulings might have just made things even more complicated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Both cases are indeed qualified victories for Meta and Anthropic. And at least one judge &#8211; Alsup &#8211; seems sympathetic to some of the AI industry&rsquo;s core arguments about copyright. But that same ruling railed against the startup&rsquo;s use of pirated media, leaving it potentially on the hook for massive financial damage. (Anthropic even admitted it did not initially purchase a copy of every book it used.) Meanwhile, the Meta ruling asserted that because a flood of AI content could crowd out human artists, the entire field of AI system training might be fundamentally at odds with fair use. And neither case a \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/analysis\/694657\/ai-copyright-rulings-anthropic-meta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past week, big AI companies have &#8211; in theory &#8211; chalked up two big legal wins. 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