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Judge Lets Reddit Lawsuit Against Anthropic Proceed
Reddit's lawsuit against Anthropic to continue after court allows three claims to move forward.
In brief
Reddit's lawsuit against Anthropic to continue after court allows three claims to move forward. A San Francisco judge permitted Reddit's three claims against Anthropic to proceed while dismissing two others in their lawsuit over data scraping. Originally reported by Mashable.
Reddit sues Anthropic
Reddit accused Anthropic of illegally scraping user comments to train its Claude chatbot without consent.
Judge allows three claims
A San Francisco County Superior Court judge permitted three of Reddit's five claims to proceed: breach of contract, interference with contract, and violation of California's unfair competition law.
Two claims dismissed
The judge dismissed Reddit's unjust enrichment and trespass to chattels claims but allowed refile with more specificity by Oct. 16.
Judge rejects browsewrap argument
Kahn rejected Anthropic's claim that Reddit's User Agreement was an unenforceable 'browsewrap' agreement because Anthropic kept scraping Reddit more than 100,000 times.
Reddit's legal stance
Reddit's chief legal officer Ben Lee stated AI companies should not scrape user information without clear data usage limitations.
The main idea
A San Francisco judge permitted Reddit's three claims against Anthropic to proceed while dismissing two others in their lawsuit over data scraping.
