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Bartz v. Anthropic: Mapping Fair-Use Boundaries in the Age of Generative AI
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In a nuanced decision that nonetheless could serve to shape the intersection of copyright law and artificial intelligence for the foreseeable future, Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California finds that “the purpose and character of using copyrighted works to train LLMs to generate new text was quintessentially transformative.”
But while his decision in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC validates legitimate AI training as consistent with fair-use doctrine, Alsup nonetheless draws firm boundaries against digital piracy—even when conducted for transformative purposes.