That's yet to be determined. The judge ruled that an entirely separate trial will be necessary to determine if Anthropic violated specific copyrights when they downloaded books from pirate websites and what the damages would be if they did so.
So far no court case has ruled downloading to be a violation of copyright. In Sony BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum and Capitol Records, Inc. v. Thomas-Rasset the courts ruled that downloading and then sharing the content constituted a violation of copyright law. Those are the only two cases I'm aware of where a ruling was made (relevant to this).
The courts need to be very careful with any such ruling because search engines download pirated content all day every day. If the mere act of downloading it violated copyright law then that will break the Internet (as we know it).
That's yet to be determined. The judge ruled that an entirely separate trial will be necessary to determine if Anthropic violated specific copyrights when they downloaded books from pirate websites and what the damages would be if they did so.
So far no court case has ruled downloading to be a violation of copyright. In Sony BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum and Capitol Records, Inc. v. Thomas-Rasset the courts ruled that downloading and then sharing the content constituted a violation of copyright law. Those are the only two cases I'm aware of where a ruling was made (relevant to this).
The courts need to be very careful with any such ruling because search engines download pirated content all day every day. If the mere act of downloading it violated copyright law then that will break the Internet (as we know it).