3 Count: 50 Year Anniversary

A judge ordered Meta to hand over command histories of servers used to download pirated books for AI training and to name the employees who approved the downloads, TorrentFreak's Ernesto Van der Sar reported. The order is part of discovery in an ongoing copyright lawsuit against Meta, in which a judge previously ruled the training itself was protected as fair use while Anthropic has been held liable for using pirated material. Separately, Postmedia, Torstar, The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press sued Anthropic in an Ontario court, alleging copyright infringement, terms-of-service violations and circumvention of copyright protection measures in training Claude.

3 Count: 50 Year Anniversary Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/plagiarismtoday.com , Mastodon https://mastodon.world/@plagiarismtoday or LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/plagiarismtoday/ . 1: Judge Orders Meta to Name Employees Who Approved Torrenting Anna’s Archive and LibGen https://torrentfreak.com/judge-orders-meta-to-name-employees-who-approved-torrenting-annas-archive-and-libgen/ First off, today, Ernesto Van der Sar at TorrentFreak writes that a judge has ordered Meta to hand over command histories of its servers that were used to download pirated books for AI training, as well as name the employees who approved the downloads. The lawsuit is one of many filed against Meta alleging copyright infringement during the training of its AI models. A judge has previously ruled that the actual training was protected under fair use. However, companies, most notably Anthropic, have been held liable for using pirated material to train their models. These recent orders put Meta’s process under the microscope. It includes examining how the books were downloaded, namely whether they were downloaded and seeded on the BitTorrent network, as well as who approved the downloads. The order is part of the discovery process in the case, which is ongoing. 2: Anthropic Sued by Major Canadian News Publishers for Copyright Claims in Ontario Court https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/anthropic-postmedia-torstar-globe-canadian-press-copyright-lawsuit-9.7387205 Next up today, Anja Karadeglija at the CBC reports that the AI company Anthropic is facing yet another copyright lawsuit, this time from a group of major Canadian news publishers. The lawsuit was filed by Postmedia, Torstar, The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press in an Ontario court. They allege that Anthropic committed copyright infringement by using their articles and other content to train its AI systems, most notably Claude. In addition to the copyright issues, the lawsuit further alleges that Anthropic violated their terms of service and that the company circumvented their copyright protection measures. The publishers filed a similar lawsuit against OpenAI in 2024. That case is still pending. 3: The Copyright Act Turns 50: An Inside View from the Copyright Office https://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2026/10/the-copyright-act-turns-50-an-inside-view-from-the-copyright-office/ Finally, today, Nora Scheland at the US Copyright Office writes that the Copyright Act of 1976 was signed into law 50 years ago, bringing with it sweeping reforms to United States copyright law. On September 23, the US Copyright Office held a special event celebrating that anniversary. It featured remarks from the Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, as well as various panels with legislators, former Registers of Copyrights, and other experts. The Copyright Act of 1976 was the first major overhaul of copyright law in the US since the Copyright Act of 1909. It implemented a number of changes to the law, many of which would be critical to applying copyright law to new technologies. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff https://about.me/jbgoff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ . Want to Reuse or Republish this Content? If you want to feature this article in your site, classroom or elsewhere, just let us know We usually grant permission within 24 hours.