Reddit, Inc. v. Anthropic PBC

Reddit filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in June 2025 before the San Francisco County Court. The matter was then moved to the California District Court on 3 July alleging the AI company scraped millions (potentially billions) of Reddit posts and comments without permission to train its Claude chatbot models. The lawsuit claims breaches of contract, unjust enrichment, tortious interference, and unfair competition. Anthropic removed the case to federal court in July, arguing Reddit's claims are "quintessential" copyright claims artfully pleaded to avoid federal copyright law, though Reddit insists the case is about contract breaches and privacy violations, not copyright. The timing is notable given Reddit's 2023 decision to begin charging for API access to prevent unlicensed scraping and its subsequent licensing deals with companies like Google.

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