This Week in the Circuits: Anthropic Pushes for Early Appeal in AI Fair Use Case

Welcome to This Week in the Circuits, a look at the most significant cases before federal appeals courts.

Anthropic PBC will push for the Ninth Circuit’s early involvement in a closely watched case concerning the copyright law implications of training generative artificial intelligence tools like its Claude chatbot.

The company is seeking permission to bring an interlocutory appeal to resolve what it describes as conflicting rulings by federal trial court judges on the appropriate fair use standard for analyzing AI tools. A group of authors brought a copyright infringement lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging it trained its AI on more than ...