A federal judge in California rejected Anthropic's bid to immediately appeal a June ruling that denied the company blanket fair-use protection for training on copyrighted books. The judge found that while Anthropic's training itself may constitute fair use, the company's practice of storing pirated copies in a central library exceeded fair-use bounds and exposed it to potential liability. The case now proceeds to a December jury trial where damages could total billions of dollars. For financial institutions, this creates material uncertainty around both Anthropic's balance sheet exposure and the precedent-setting implications for industry training practices and IP contingency costs.
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