A US court last year found that Anthropic’s training of LLMs on some copyrighted content could be considered fair use as it was deemed “transformative.” But it determined that storing pirated works was “inherently, irredeemably infringing,” which then led the AI group to pay $1.5 billion to settle the lawsuit. In Germany, a ruling from November last year found that OpenAI had infringed on copyright because its model had memorized song lyrics. The case, brought by GEMA, an association representin...