( June 30, 2026, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Writers filed a US complaint accusing Anthropic of copyright infringement in the development of their artificial intelligence models. “Anthropic not only torrented copyrighted materials from online shadow libraries, it also purchased and scanned millions of physical books—reproducing their contents—without authorization. Its downloading, torrenting, and scanning activities were done both to build and train its Claude models, and to build and maintain a central library that it intended to retain indefinitely,” they allege.See attached file. ...
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