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- June 26, 2025
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AI can train with digital books without authorization
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Meta. Similarly, Anthropic win against the authors in the United States, what does that mean for our authors here?
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Ia 2 – authors 0
Training an AI with books protected by copyright. without the author’s authorization, constitutes fair use in the United States, according to two decisions on Meta and Anthropic rendered this week.
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What is fair use?
In the United States. the doctrine of fair use (” fair use ) Is an exception to copyright which allows the use of a work without authorization in certain cases deemed beneficial for the public interest.
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In the Anthropic case, the judge concluded that the use of books was of this exception, evoking “spectacular developments”. However, he said that the creation of a permanent library of hacked books is not a fair use. The complainants against Meta did not succeed in proving that the use was inequitable. which does not mean that it was legal, according to the judge.
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And in Canada?
These two decisions could have effects in Canada. where a collective recourse, led ai can train books without by the Author Youth Anne Robillard (The Emerald Knights), is awaiting the green light from the courtyard.
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“It creates a dangerous precedent. […] We use a violation to argue that we are creating something so important that we can put aside all copyright. »»
CHRISTIAN CLAVETTE
Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Moncton
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Not the same law
What could play in ai can train books without favor of Canadian artists is the definition of fair use in Canadian law. more supervised than that of our southern neighbors.
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