From Books to Music: The Post-Bartz Wave of AI Piracy Litigation and What It Means for Business Counsel
Massiel Moya Martinez – In June 2025, Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California issued one of the first major decisions addressing fair use in generative AI training. In Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, Judge Alsup held that using books to train Anthropic’s Claude models was “exceedingly transformative” and therefore qualified as fair use. […]
