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June 17, 2026

Shakespeare et al v. Anthropic PBC et al

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Case Number:

4:26-cv-05931

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California Northern

Nature of Suit:

Copyright

Judge:

Nathanael M. Cousins

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Reflects complaints, answers, motions, orders and trial notes entered from Jan. 1, 2011.
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  1. June 18, 2026

    Anthropic Faces New Copyright Suit From Authors

    A group of authors sued Anthropic, the company behind the artificial intelligence large language model Claude, accusing the firm of ingesting the authors' works illegally via online shadow libraries to use as material to train Anthropic's models.

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