Reddit, Inc. v. Anthropic PBC
Summary
Reddit sues Anthropic for copyright infringement, alleging the AI company used Reddit's posts to train its Claude models without permission.
Summary generated by AI from public docket data. Verify against the original filing before relying on it.
Coverage vs reality meter
Coverage events: 18P · 7D · 23N (81 articles)
Press coverage leans plaintiff-favorable; no court ruling has been classified yet.
Coverage breakdown — the articles behind the meter
33 plaintiff-favorable · 16 defendant-favorable · 32 neutral articles
The meter counts distinct coverage events, not articles: 18 plaintiff · 7 defendant · 23 neutral events — a burst of same-stance coverage counts once, however many outlets ran it.
- Over 100 Authors Sue Anthropic, Claim AI Firm Used Pirated BooksTimes Now · 2026-06-19
- Reddit is Sitting on a UGC Goldmine and Big AI Wants inAIM Media House · 2026-06-01
- Reddit sues AI company Anthropic for allegedly 'scraping' user comments to train chatbot ClaudeMSN · 2026-05-23
- Reddit sues AI startup Anthropic for allegedly using data without permissionMSN · 2026-05-12
- Reddit's data-scraping lawsuit against Anthropic preempted by copyright law, Anthropic arguesMLex · 2026-06-16
- Reddit's data-scraping lawsuit against Anthropic preempted by copyright law, Anthropic arguesMLex · 2026-06-16
- Reddit's data-scraping lawsuit against Anthropic preempted by copyright law, Anthropic arguesMLex · 2026-06-16
- How an engineer ensured Claude Code source code leak stays on GitHub despite Anthropic's takedown noticeMSN · 2026-04-23
Coverage sentiment vs. docket activity over time
Counsel of record
- Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLPCorey Worcester, Kelsey Falkenberg, Morgan William Tovey +1 more
- Quinn Emanuel et alJohn B Quinn
- Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLPStefan Berthelsen
- Morrison & Foerster LLPAdam Robert Brausa, Ragesh K. Tangri, Whitney Rose O'Byrne
- Conrad Metlitzky Kane LLPElizabeth Ann Kim, Grace Yu-Ting Yang
- Cooley LLPKatherine E. McNutt
- Cohen Williams LLPLaura Jeanne Lively Babashoff
- Court
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- Docket no.
- 3:25-cv-05643
- Nature of suit
- Copyright
- Judge
- Trina L. Thompson
- Filed
- 2025-07-03
- Last filing
- 2026-05-29
- Terminated
- 2026-03-30
Cause
28:1331 Fed. Question
Entities in this case
Parties
Reddit, Inc. (plaintiff) Anthropic PBC (defendant)
Docket entries
- 2026-05-29
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- 2026-03-26
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- 2026-03-24
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- 2026-03-04
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- 2026-01-26
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- 2025-12-15
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- 2025-12-12
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- 2025-12-11
CASE REFERRED to Private ADR. (af, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 12/11/2025)
- 2025-12-11
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- 2025-10-25
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- 2025-10-02
Set/Reset Deadlines as to 19 MOTION to Remand . Motion Hearing set for 1/27/2026 02:00 PM in San Francisco, Courtroom 09, 19th Floor before Judge Trina L Thompson. (rfm, COURT USER) (Filed on 10/2/2025)
- 2025-10-02
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- 2025-10-01
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- 2025-10-01
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- 2025-09-23
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- 2025-09-22
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- 2025-08-04
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- 2025-07-08
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- 2025-07-03
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- 2025-07-03
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Docket history from CourtListener/RECAP — most recent first.