Regulation, Law & GovernanceUS District Court for the Northern District of California (Judge Alsup)US District Court for the Northern District of California

Summary judgment in Bartz v. Anthropic

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Bartz v. Anthropic summary judgment — a first-instance summary judgment. Training an LLM on lawfully purchased books and converting print books to digital are fair use; building and keeping a pirated library is not fair use

Why it matters

The first case to rule separately on training itself and on how the data was acquired

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Officialcopyrightalliance.orghttps://copyrightalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Bartz-v.-Anthropic-Order.pdf

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