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News Mason

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#trends today for 'pirated books' 'russell wilson' & 'court rules'

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September 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM

Diane Wordsworth 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (she/her/mrs)

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#AItraining #copyright #anthropic #piratedbooks

Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated books used to train AI chatbots

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.

apnews.com

September 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM

DesignTAXI

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Anthropic’s AI book training just passed a big legal test, but the piracy allegations are still heading to court. 📚 #Anthropic #FairUse #AItraining #ClaudeAI #PiratedBooks

Anthropic's AI book training deemed fair use, but piracy trial looms

A recent court ruling has handed AI company Anthropic a partial win in a high-profile copyright lawsuit that could shape how artificial intelligence training is regulated in the US. While the decision...

community.designtaxi.com

June 25, 2025 at 6:23 AM

Journos News

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Anthropic Cleared on AI Training Use But Faces Trial Over Pirated Books

#Anthropic #ClaudeAI #AIlawsuit #FairUse #CopyrightCase
#TechLaw #AIethics #PiratedBooks #GenerativeAI #AInews

Judge Says Anthropic’s AI Training Was Legal — But Piracy Claims Head to Trial

Judge Rules in Favor of Anthropic on AI Training—but Pirated Books Case Heads to Trial In a major legal moment

journosnews.com

June 25, 2025 at 5:49 AM

News Mason

@newsmason.bsky.social

#trends today for 'north pacific' 'free speech' & 'pirated books'

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June 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM

Lady Scribbledown

@ladyscribbledown.bsky.social

The Treasures by Harriet Evans is out today… but some had it months ago, and not quite by invitation…

#booksky #bookrecommendation #releaseday #newrelease #piratedbooks

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The Curious Case of the Manuscript Leak

A Letter from Lady Scribbledown - 12 June 2025

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June 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM

Set Side B - The Flipside of Gaming

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8-Bit Show-And-Tell Finds Fake C64 Programming Books On Amazon https://setsideb.com/8-bit-show-and-tell-takes-down-fake-c64-programming-books/ #8bitshowandtell# Amazon # c64 # PiratedBooks

May 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM

The Digital Free Press

@tdfreepress.bsky.social

META Accused Of Using Pirated Books To Train AI www.zerohedge.com/political/me... via @zerohedge #Meta #PiratedBooks #AI #TheDigitalFreePress

META Accused Of Using Pirated Books To Train AI

Who owns content in the LLM?

www.zerohedge.com

March 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM

Ruan Willow

@ruanwillow.bsky.social

I just sent a letter telling AI companies they do not have the right to use my work. Use the @authorsguild's letter template to send your own: actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...
You can check if your books are on LibGen www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... #piratedbooks #libgen #ai

Tell AI Companies They Do Not Have the Right to Use Your Work

I just sent a letter telling AI companies they do not not have the right to use my work. Use the Authors Guild's letter template to send your own.

actionnetwork.org

March 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM

killerrabbit90.bsky.social

@killerrabbit90.bsky.social

Has your book been pirated by Meta? (This week in books) nathanbransford.com/blog/2025/03... #theft #PiratedBooks #Meta #MarkZuckerberg #PayUpZuckerberg #stealing #authors #books

Has your book been pirated by Meta? (This week in books)

This week! Books! Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Meta allegedly pirated millions of books to train its A.I. via Library Genesis, or LibGen, a piracy library. The Atlantic created a searchable tool to see ...

nathanbransford.com

March 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM

Bagolina

@bagolina.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy

The Unbelievable Scale of #AI’s #piratedbooks Problem
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libgen-meta-openai/682093
Court documents released last night show that the senior manager felt it was “really important for Meta] to get books ASAP,” as “books are actually more […]

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sciences.social

March 22, 2025 at 6:25 AM

Frances Everly

@franceseverly.bsky.social

It’s so disheartening to discover your books are being pirated. It’s worse when major companies like Meta use those pirated books for their own gains. What’s the point of pursuing a dream that’s being stolen from you? #sad #indieauthor #authorproblems #booksky #authorlife #piratedbooks #bookpirates

March 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM