Anthropic loses bid to stay book authors' US copyright trial
By Amy Miller ( August 11, 2025, 22:05 GMT | Insight) -- Anthropic lost its bid to pause a massive copyright class action slated for trial in December after US District Judge William Alsup said jurors could vindicate the artificial intelligence company. The company’s “doomsday" predictions of potentially business-ending damages are based on a worst-case scenarios that might not happen, he said. “We should hold a trial, let both sides make their cases, and whoever loses can then appeal on a well-developed record,” Alsup said. Anthropic lost its bid to pause book authors' massive copyright class action slated for trial in December after a US judge said jurors could vindicate the artificial intelligence company....
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