New Delhi, July 21 -- a determination that training an AI model on copyrighted text constitutes fair use under federal law.

significant portions of Anthropic's training data had come from Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror, two platforms that operate as repositories of pirated literary and academic texts. Anthropic did not dispute that it had downloaded books from those platforms. What it disputed was whether doing so constituted copyright infringement.

Library Genesis, also known as LibGen, hosts an estimated 4.5 million books and 85 million academic articles, the large majority in violation of copyright. Pirate Library Mirror maintains a similar collection. Both platforms are routinely blocked by internet service providers in t...