A recent court ruling has provided clarity on the issue of book piracy in the development of Artificial Intelligence models. In two separate lawsuits, judges have deemed that tech companies are using copyrighted works without consent for training purposes to be “fair use.” The ruling is based on the concept of “transformative” use, meaning that the trained LLM results in a fundamentally different product that does not directly compete with the original books. This decision has implications for more than 40 lawsuits filed against AI companies since 2022, seeking accountability for allegedly stealing millions of copyrighted works to develop their technology.
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/anthropic-meta-ai-rulings/683526