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Claude ‘guardrails’ spare Anthropic from thornier inquiry in US copyright case

By Melissa Ritti ( June 26, 2025, 13:56 GMT | Comment) -- Last month’s report on copyright and artificial intelligence delivered the artificial intelligence industry a blow when the US Copyright Office refused to declare the use of protected works in AI training inherently transformative. A key distinction drawn by Shira Perlmutter — ousted as Register of Copyrights just a day later — involves “guardrails” that prevent end user access to “objectionable content.”This week’s partial summary judgment in favor of Anthropic PBC could go a long way towards clearing up lingering uncertainty over the collision of artificial intelligence and copyright....

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