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Anthropic has achieved a significant legal victory in a landmark copyright case involving the use of copyrighted materials to train AI models. A federal judge ruled that Anthropic’s training of its AI tools was protected under the ‘fair use’ doctrine, deeming it a transformative use. This decision marks the first major ruling in a generative AI copyright case to address fair use in detail. Despite this win, Anthropic faces a high-stakes trial over allegations of pirating millions of books to build its datasets. The court found that Anthropic downloaded over seven million pirated copies of books, maintaining them in its library even after deciding not to use them for training. As a result, the company must now contend with a trial to address the damages related to these piracy claims.