In a lawsuit by authors against the technology company Anthropic, a judge ruled that using pirated books to build a library was illegal, and the case will now go to a trial to determine the amount of damages the company must pay. The provided court document does not mention a fine of 1.5 billion or any other specific amount. The judge did rule, however, that the company's separate actions of training its computer models and scanning books it had legally purchased were considered fair use.
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A court ruled using pirated books was illegal; the amount of the fine will be decided at trial.