Anthropic is making its mark after removing the creators’ branding
In addition to copyright infringement, the publishers invoke Section 1202 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which prohibits, under certain conditions, the removal of ‘ copyright management information’ (CMI) attached to works: title, authors, publisher, rights holder or copyright notice. According to the complaint, based in part on internal communications from Anthropic that were made public in other… proceedings, executives at the AI developer are alleged to have compared several extraction tools designed to clean the data. One of them was reportedly ruled out because it left too much ‘useless junk’ intact, including, in the example examined, a rights holder’s name and a ‘© 2019’ notice. Anthropic is said to have preferred a tool that removed footers and copyright information more effectively. The claimants infer that this choice led to…