Reddit, Anthropic clash over whether copyright law bars Calif. scraping suit
By Amy Miller ( August 13, 2026, 00:45 GMT | Insight) -- Anthropic told a California judge that Reddit’s data-scraping lawsuit is really a copyright fight in disguise and should be preempted by federal law. Reddit countered that Anthropic did more than scrape users’ posts: It violated the platform’s privacy policies and other obligations governing how user data could be used. The San Francisco Superior Court judge appeared receptive to Reddit’s privacy argument but gave no indication how he would rule.Anthropic’s bid to shut down Reddit’s data-scraping lawsuit because the claims are preempted by federal copyright law faced intensive questioning from a California trial judge Wednesday....
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