Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anthropic spent "many millions of dollars" buying used print books, then stripped off the bindings, cut the pages, and scanned ...

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Anthropic bought, cut, and scanned millions of used books for its "research library." The company also downloaded over 7 million pirated books, the judge found. The judge wrote that training Claude on ...

More than 480,000 books downloaded from illicit libraries are part of the settlement. Anthropic will pay $3,100 per work to the copyright holders. Alsup said plaintiffs had a strong but not certain ...

A federal appeals court should decide whether Anthropic has a valid fair use defense to claims that it infringed authors' copyright by training its chatbot Claude on books downloaded from piracy sites ...

I just downloaded and installed the PC app and am able to read all of my books in it. Or do you mean you're not able to back up / copy the books? Yes, I don't see how to do that within the app -- ...