This post is a follow up to yesterday’s analysis of the Susman Godfrey Playbook in lawsuits against AI companies. To recap, one of the strategies that Susman Godfrey lawyers successfully advanced in Bartz v. Anthropic is the separate treatment of Anthropic’s initial acquisition and library-building of copies from shadow libraries. What I call the Shadow … Continue reading With statutory damages, the Shadow Library Strategy offers the same potential amount of recovery to book authors. Winning on AI training adds $0.