Topic - William Haskell Alsup

U.S. District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco said in his June ruling that the AI system’s distilling from thousands of written works to be able to produce its own passages of text qualified as “fair use” under U.S. copyright law because it was “quintessentially transformative.”

Authors settle copyright lawsuit with AI company Anthropic →

But while dismissing the key copyright infringement claim made by the group of authors who sued the company last year, Alsup also said Anthropic must still go to trial over its alleged theft of their works.

Judge rules AI company Anthropic didn't break copyright law but must face trial over pirated books →