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On Memorization

A Cure for Lying and a Bad Memory by Thomas Rowlandson. Public Domain, 1807. Sourced from The Met.

“We say that a model has “memorized” a piece of training data when (1) it is possible to reconstruct from the model (2) a (near-)exact copy...

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The 1976 Act Could Have Been Very Different

This is the latest in our series of posts marking the 50th anniversary of the Copyright Act of 1976. To find a list of all the posts in this series, click here. This post by guest author, Jonathan Band, is based on a presentation made on Ma...

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Bartz v. Anthropic Fairness Hearing: Observations and Takeaways

An overview of some of the objections in Bartz v. Anthropic

The fairness hearing in Bartz v. Anthropic took place this afternoon, Thursday, May 14, 2026, before Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín in the Northern District of California. The hear...

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Bartz v. Anthropic Fairness Hearing: Final Reminder, 91.3% Claims Rate, and updates from the Docket

Part of the settlemement notice that went out to class members

The fairness hearing in Bartz v. Anthropic is set for today, Thursday, May 14, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time before Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín. The hearing will be open to...

13 days ago
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Authors Alliance Backs Illinois HB5236 and the Broader State Ebook Licensing Effort

Illinois State Capitol, Capitol Avenue and 2nd Street, Springfield, IL. Credit: Warren LeMay, https://www.flickr.com/photos/warrenlemay/ distributed under a CC-BY-SA 2.0 License

Authors Alliance is pleased to announce our collaboration wit...

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