Judge Won’t Stay AI Case While Anthropic Appeals Class Cert, Fair Use Rulings

( August 12, 2025, 11:33 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Any appeal by Anthropic PBC of a ruling rejecting fair use defenses for pirating copyrighted works or granting class certification should involve a full record, and to the extent going to trial financially threatens the artificial intelligence company, that reality would be the outcome of its own conduct, a federal judge in California said Aug. 11 in declining to stay the case pending appeal....