Ai Copyright

A federal judge ruled in a May 2026 lawsuit that Anthropic illegally scraped and pirated the work of over 10 Stanford professors to train its Claude models. In Bartz v. Anthropic, Judge William Alsup ruled on the case, which the Authors Alliance calls the largest copyright settlement involving an AI company.

Legal • Hacker News

The Wikimedia Foundation is urging courts in landmark AI copyright cases to protect LLM training on copyrighted work while still barring chatbots from regurgitating it to users. It argues an overly black-and-white ruling could either deprive Wikipedians of useful AI tools or endanger the open web.

Policy & Regulation • The Verge AI