05/29/2026
What happens when an AI company trains its models on millions of books, some purchased and some pirated?
In this featured episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott M. Hervey and Tara J. Sattler break down the June 23, 2025 fair use ruling in the lawsuit over Anthropic’s Claude AI, including why the court found AI training to be fair use, but drew the line at keeping pirated books in a permanent digital library.
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