July 17 2025 (Reuters) - A California federal judge ruled on Thursday that three authors suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic for copyright infringement can represent writers nationwide whose books Anthropic allegedly pirated to train its AI system.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup said the authors can bring a class action, opens new tab on behalf of all U.S. writers whose works Anthropic allegedly downloaded from "pirate libraries" LibGen and PiLiMi to create a repository of millions of books in 2021 and 2022.
美國時間20250717星期四加州聯邦法官裁准對人工智能新創公司Anthropic提起侵害著作權訴訟的三位作家可代表全國作家（此3位本為當事人；法官裁准此3位可為全國作家起訴及其他訴訟行為），而這些作家的著作被Anthropic剽竊用來訓練伊等旗下人工智能。美國聯邦地區法院法官William Alsup說道：該3位著作人可提起集體訴訟；成為那些著作宣稱被Anthropic於LiGen與PiLiMi下載從而在2021及2022年間成立數百萬書籍之書庫之美國作家代表，此為美國著作權訴訟開啟了新篇章。
The case is one of several high-stakes lawsuits brought by authors, news outlets and other copyright owners against companies including OpenAI, Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab and Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab over their AI training.
本件為數宗由作家、新聞媒體及其他著作權人起訴對抗包括OpenAI，Microsoft新頁面及Meta平台開啟新頁面等而受矚目的訴訟之一。
AI companies argue their systems make fair use of copyrighted material to create new, transformative content. Alsup determined in June that Anthropic's AI training made fair use of authors' works, but said the company still violated their rights by saving pirated copies of their books to a "central library of all the books in the world" that would not necessarily be used for AI training.
AI公司答辯稱，其系統利用有著作權的題材創作出新的、可轉換的內容是著作權法合理使用範疇。Alsup法官六月的裁定理由，Anthropic人工智能利用作家的著作是合理使用，但在其全球中央書籍書庫儲存違法剽竊作家著作之重製本，此行為非用來訓練人工智能所必要的，故仍是侵害作家的權利。
Alsup said on Thursday the three authors could represent all writers whose books Anthropic allegedly downloaded from LibGen and PiLiMi, rejecting Anthropic's argument that identifying all of the copyright-eligible works and their authors would be impractical.
Alsup法官星期四說道，此三位作家可代表那些主張其等書籍被Anthropic從LibGen及PiLiMi下載之作家們，故駁回Anthropic答辯稱確認全部符合著作權適格之著作及該等著作之著作人是不實際的。