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By Whitney Hart Jul 28, 2025 [Digital Justice. A judge's gavel and a digital device, signifying legal technology. Abstract representation of the intersection of law and technology](https://avenuez.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/AdobeStock_1320842530-scaled.jpeg) When Judge Alsup issued his June 23 ruling in *[Bartz v. Anthropic](https://avenuez.com/blog/bartz-v-anthropic-copyright-ruling-ai-training-fair-use/)*, the generative AI industry collectively exhaled. The court affirmed that training large language models (LLMs) on lawfully acquired books could qualify as fair use, which was a pivotal moment that many hoped would provide legal certainty in a long-ambiguous area. But a new chapter has opened. Just weeks later, the *Bartz* case has evolved into a certified class-action lawsuit, expanding the scope and the stakes considerably. This development reframes the conversation from *one author vs. one AI company* to *an entire creative class vs. the future of AI training*. And the implications could be enormous, not just for Anthropic, but for every company building or deploying foundation models trained on third-party content. ## What’s Happening Now: Class Status Granted On July 12, 2025, Judge Alsup granted class certification in *Bartz v. Anthropic*, allowing the case to proceed on behalf of all U.S.-based authors whose books may have been used ***without permission***in training Anthropic’s Claude model. This means that instead of three individual plaintiffs (Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson), the lawsuit now represents potentially **tens of thousands** of authors. The central claim remains the same: that Anthropic trained Claude on approximately seven million pirated books, downloaded from illicit sources like Bibliotik and Z-Library. The court has already ruled that this *use of pirated materials is not protected under fair use*. The next phase will determine whether Anthropic’s infringement was willful, and if so, what damages might be owed. ## Why This Is a Turning Point for GenAI The shift to a class action dramatically changes the legal and operational risk profile for LLM companies. 1. **Scale of liability**: Class status introduces the potential for massive financial exposure. If statutory damages apply per work, Anthropic (and others such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Grok) could face claims in the hundreds of millions, if not billions, depending on how many infringing works are confirmed. This level of liability exceeds the total capital raised by many of these companies to date, and could effectively shut down commercial LLM development if left unresolved. 2. **Proof of provenance**: The spotlight is now on *how* companies built their models. Vague claims of “publicly available data” won’t hold up in court anymore. Companies will need to document *where* their data came from, *how* it was obtained, and *what licenses* (if any) were in place. 3. **Industry-wide ripple effect**: This isn’t just about Anthropic. It sets a roadmap for future class actions against OpenAI, Meta, Stability AI, and others whose training datasets may include copyrighted material without permission. 4. **Precedent on opt-out and consent**: If the class succeeds, it may help establish the need for robust opt-out mechanisms—or better yet, consent-based data inclusion strategies. We could finally see movement toward something like “llms.txt” as an industry norm, with real teeth behind it. ## What This Means for Marketers, Publishers, and Content Owners The emergence of this class action reinforces a core message: **data rights are now strategic rights.** **Audit your content footprint\** Understand what you’re publishing, where it’s hosted, and whether it’s being used in model training (voluntarily or not). **Clarify your scraping policies\** Update your site’s terms of service, robots.txt, and llms.txt files. These aren’t just technical details anymore, they’re legal signals that establish boundaries and intent. **Explore licensing pathways\** Some platforms (e.g. Shutterstock, Stack Overflow) have opted to license their data to LLM providers. For certain brands or publishers, negotiated access may offer a way to monetize content without ceding control. **Monitor model behavior\** If you suspect your proprietary content is being surfaced—or approximated—by a model like Claude, GPT, or Gemini, start documenting it. Future class actions may hinge on showing patterns of derivative or stylistic reproduction. ## What Comes Next The *Bartz* class action will now move into discovery and trial. If the plaintiffs prevail, we may see a new framework emerge in which AI companies must build models based on either licensed content or explicitly permissible data, not ambiguous aggregations of scraped material. That would force a reset on how the generative AI industry approaches scale, sourcing, and transparency. It may also empower creators of all types (writers, journalists, artists, educators) to play a more active role in deciding how their work is used (or not used) by artificial intelligence. 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