3 Count: First Settlement

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1: Anthropic Settles Class Action from Us Authors Alleging Copyright Infringement

First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reprots that Anthropic has reached a settlement in a class action lawsuit filed by authors though the terms of the settlement are not known and the settlement needs approval from the court.

The lawsuit was filed by a trio of authors last year and sought class action status to represent the other authors whose work was used without permission to train Anthropic’s AI systems. The judge in the case found that the use of the work for AI training was a fair use but that Anthropic violated author’s rights by saving millions of pirated books to a “central library” on their servers.

According to Anthropic, the terms of the settlement will be disclosed in the coming weeks. The judge has ordered both sides to file requests for preliminary approval by September 5.

2: Asahi, Nikkei Sue Ai Search Outfit Perplexity for Copyright Infringement

Next up today, David Meyer at The Register reports that AI company Perplexity yas been hit with a new lawuit in Japan as media companies Nikkei and Asahi both claim the company illegally scraped and repeated their articles.

Under Japanese law, AI companies are allowed to train their models on copyright-protected material. However, the companies allege that Perplexity both illegally accessed their site to scrape the content and then repeated copyright-protected material from their articles.

The lawsuit seeks ¥2.2 billion ($15 million) in damages per company. They further allege that Perplexity attributes false information to the company, violating the country’s comptetition law.

3: Gamers Nexus Faces Strike After Nvidia AI GPU Smuggling Exposé

Finally today, Manhkbrady at dLcompare.com reports that the popular tech YouTube channel Gamers Nexus received a copyright strike after it used several seconds from a Bloomberg video as part of an expose on GPU smuggling.

According to a representative of the channel, Bloomberg filed the copyright strike over a short clip feating US President Donald Trump discussing illegal GPU shipments. They felt that their use was protected under fair use though Bloomberg, clearly, disagrees.

Gamers Nexus currently has over 2.5 million subscribers. However, fans worry that the strike could result in the channel’s closure as YouTube typically deletes channels after three such strikes.

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