Anthropic’s IPO: copyright – a financial risk for which there is no estimate
Copyright features prominently amongst the risk factors outlined by Anthropic to prospective investors in the official documents filed with the SEC ahead of its forthcoming IPO. The company acknowledges that the application of intellectual property rules to the training of AI models remains legally uncertain, both in the United States and elsewhere. It continues to defend the legality of its practices, notably… under US fair use law, whilst not ruling out the possibility that the courts might adopt a different interpretation – which is entirely possible, as we have explained here, amongst other places . Possible implications The consequences, as assessed by Claude’s developer, could be considerable. Anthropic explicitly anticipates having to pay licence fees to access training data, facing injunctions restricting the use of certain models, or even having…