Bartz v. Anthropic, order on fair use (23 June 2025): pirated library copies (Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, No. 3:24-cv-05417-WHA (N.D. Cal. June 23, 2025), Dkt. 231, at 19)
How the data was acquired is judged separately from the training. Copies taken from pirate sources were not excused by a later fair use.
Dated 17 Oct 2026Source checked 17 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
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“Such piracy of otherwise available copies is inherently, irredeemably infringing even if the pirated copies are immediately used for the transformative use and immediately discarded.”
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- Bartz v. Anthropic: order on fair use (summary judgment)
- Bartz v. Anthropic, order on fair use (23 June 2025): training was transformative (Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, No. 3:24-cv-05417-WHA (N.D. Cal. June 23, 2025), Dkt. 231, at 13)
- Bartz v. Anthropic, order on fair use (23 June 2025): the market for licensing books for training (Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, No. 3:24-cv-05417-WHA (N.D. Cal. June 23, 2025), Dkt. 231, at 28)
- Bartz v. Anthropic, order on fair use (23 June 2025): the central library (Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, No. 3:24-cv-05417-WHA (N.D. Cal. June 23, 2025), Dkt. 231, at 2)
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