Anthropic PBC is asking for an appellate court to resolve conflicting fair use rulings to decide how judges should evaluate if AI companies fairly trained their models on copyrighted material accessed from unauthorized sources.
The maker of Claude AI won a partial victory in June when a federal judge ruled that training AI on copyrighted works constitutes fair use, in a decision that left the door open to liability for downloading troves of copyrighted material without permission. It now wants the Ninth Circuit to determine whether fair use should be analyzed based on a company’s “ultimate purpose” or whether courts ...