Reddit Insists Anthropic AI-Scraping Suit Isn’t A Copyright Case

Reddit Inc.'s lawsuit against Anthropic PBC over the AI developer’s scraping of user posts isn’t a federal copyright issue and should return to state court, the online discussion platform said.

Anthropic’s removal of the lawsuit to federal court in July “attempts to invoke a disfavored jurisdictional remedy” because Reddit’s state-law claims aren’t aren’t completely preempted by US copyright law, the social media company said in a motion to remand the action to California state court.

Each of Reddit’s breach of contract, unjust enrichment, tortious interference, and unfair competition claims contains an element that isn’t required for a copyright claim or ...