Anthropic to Appeal Class Certification in AI Copyright Case

Anthropic PBC wants to pause a copyright lawsuit over its training of generative AI until the Ninth Circuit addresses its appeal of the judge’s recent certification of some plaintiff authors as a class.

Anthropic said Thursday it will petition the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for permission to make an early appeal of the July 17 ruling, which certified a class of authors whose books were downloaded from pirated websites. That comes 10 days after it asked District Judge William Alsup for leave to appeal his June 23 ruling granting only part of its summary judgment motion ...