https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/06/reddit-challenges-anthropics-scraping-to-create-generative-ai-models-guest-blog-post.htm Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/06/reddit-challenges-anthropics-scraping-to-create-generative-ai-models-guest-blog-post.htm#comment-4432 Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:58:00 +0000 https://blog.ericgoldman.org/?p=27806#comment-4432 I believe your preemtion argument is incorrect. Reddit does not own the copyright in the posts, the authors do. Reddit can therefore only have a contract claim (if they have that). The preemption argument was tried, and rejected, in a similar case in an Orange Count Superior Court in Software Freedom Conservancy v. Vizio, with a removal, remand, and subsequent denial of another motion to dismiss based on preemption in the state court. Your theory would mean that any claim that involves a copyrighted work could only ever be brought by the copyright owner – no software distributor could ever sue for non-payment, no movie distributor could ever sue for screenings at unauthorized theaters. That's just not the case.

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