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Court Ruling Allows AI to Use Purchased Books for Training

Latest Tanzania law justice news · Court Ruling Allows AI to Use Purchased Books for Train… explained · 2025 updates · updated Aug 17, 2026 · breaking news · latest updates · explained

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  • Independent booksellers have reported a surge in bulk orders of secondhand books, suspected to be linked to AI training needs.
  • A significant court ruling in the US in 2025 allowed the use of purchased books for training AI software without violating copyright law.
  • The ruling was made by Judge William Alsup in a case involving AI firm Anthropic and three authors.
  • The court documents revealed that books are being destroyed during the training process of Anthropic's AI chatbot, Claude.
  • Anthropic claims that their data acquisition methods do not involve buying and destroying rare or antiquarian books.

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