Regulation, Law & GovernanceUS District Court for the Northern District of California (Judge Alsup)US District Court for the Northern District of California
Summary judgment in Bartz v. Anthropic
Bartz v. Anthropic summary judgment — a first-instance summary judgment. Training an LLM on lawfully purchased books and converting print books to digital are fair use; building and keeping a pirated library is not fair use
Why it matters
The first case to rule separately on training itself and on how the data was acquired
Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”
Officialcopyrightalliance.orghttps://copyrightalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Bartz-v.-Anthropic-Order.pdfAdded in Week 35, 2026 · See that week