Legal/press release/2026-09-22

Anthropic Fails to Dismiss Reddit's AI Content-Scraping Lawsuit

A federal judge has denied Anthropic's motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Reddit, allowing claims of copyright infringement and Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) violations to proceed. Law360 reports that the court found Reddit's allegations sufficient to move forward, focusing on Anthropic's alleged unauthorized use of Reddit content to train its AI models.

2 articles from 1 outlet covered this story. The underlying claim is sourced from a press release.

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1 outlet covered “Anthropic Fails to Dismiss Reddit's AI Content-Scraping Lawsuit”. All of them report the following:

  • Anthropic sought to dismiss Reddit's lawsuit
  • A federal judge denied Anthropic's motion to dismiss
  • Reddit's lawsuit alleges copyright infringement
  • Reddit's lawsuit alleges DMCA violations
  • The lawsuit concerns Anthropic's use of Reddit content for AI training

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