In a first-of-its-kind decision, an AI company wins a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by authors

The Anthropic website and mobile phone app are shown in this photo on July 5, 2024. A judge ruled in the AI company’s favor in a copyright infringement case brought last year by a group of authors. Richard Drew/AP

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AI companies could have the legal right to train their large language models on copyrighted works — as long as they obtain copies of those works legally.

That’s the upshot of a first-of-its-kind ruling by a federal judge in San Francisco on Monday in an ongoing copyright infringement case that pits a group of authors against a major

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