The FSF doesn't usually sue for copyright infringement, but when we do, we settle for freedom
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Published on
Mar 13, 2026 10:05 AM
The Free Software Foundation (FSF), like many others, received a notice regarding settlement in the copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic. It is a class action lawsuit claiming that Anthropic infringed copyright by downloading works in Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror datasets for purposes of training large language models (LLMs). According to the notice, the district court ruled that using the books to train LLMs was fair use but left fo...
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