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Anthropic Pirates SEVEN MILLION Books, Faces HUGE Damages (Bartz v. Anthropic)

August 11, 2025·9K views·594 likes·207 comments
Anthropic AI's use of SEVEN MILLION BOOKS to train its Large Language Models (LLMs) has been ruled a FAIR USE in a huge win for AI LLM providers. BUT, obtaining the SEVEN MILLION BOOKS via bittorrent illegally is not a Fair Use - and the damages will be a huge loss. #Copyright #AI #fairuse Join the Lawful Masses community on Discord! https://discord.gg/cUqVPzQFub Lawful Masses is 100% community-supported! Thanks for all of your help! Please consider supporting on Patreon.com/ljfrench, through YouTube membership, Floatplane subscription, or Twitch membership. August 2025 supporters: "Counselor" Level: Eevi, John Steel, Ugly Grill, TechTechPotato, The Blood Soaked Survivors, Kyle Siefring "Executor" Level: Arron Washington, Keith Marrocco, Brian Flowers, Meaningless, playceholder, John Swanson, matthew beller, Schi-Schi, admalledd, tdis8629, Kreachers, Guy Chapman, Laura Hertzman "Advocate" Level: Rudolph Bescherer Jr, Firstname Mclastname, JH, Cindy Campbell, Mark Randall, Marcus Agehall, Jonathan Robillard, Justin Waddell, Amanda Gillies, Tony Cruickshank, Stefan Persson, Alexander Sihn, Gregory Ford, Brody Eastwood, Andrew Reid, Dzyan, Chris Lindsay, TEEKAY, Rico Robbins, Kai Raphahn, Andrew "FastLizard4" Adams, David Zaslavsky, Jessica Pearson, AniLunchbox, Daniel Ducharme, Ph.D., Kean, Brian, Jack Draak, Scott F. Comstock, James Melanson, Alan Nise, The Disturbed Angel, eyebrows360, Raindrop Works, Chris Hilliard, Eric Barker, Gef the Mongoose, keeping up with the Devilment on weekends, DrakeDT, Lawrence Groupe, Michael, Andrew Venier, Bill Tonnies, Rabid Ronin, Thomas Dinsdale-Young, DrJKL, varia, cwestpha, Bill Somerville, Mike Dunford, Peter Huston, Evan Davis, Michael Stokes-Byrne, Jorge Vittes, Nate Gray, Tymorus, Violet Bosveld, Bryan Lubeck, Alisdair Meredith, Kris Hetzel, Christina B, Jennifer and David Brock, Blueberry Hill, Andrew, Rita Loy, arkiandruski, Mian, crystalvala, Michael White, Curtis Donelson, B-System, Caleb Begly Fun and Tech, Teryn Bence, Dean Maurer 00:00 - Introduction 02:05 - Judge Alsup's Order on Fair Use 03:54 - The Piracy 08:49 - Fair Use 11:29 - Fair Use Transformation 16:27 - The Piracy was not Fair Use 23:24 - Class Certifcation 27:46 - The Certified Class 28:15 - Leonard Thoughts 30:52 - Damages