# Demand Progress Education Fund

Type: Company

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## Timeline

- **2026-08-21**: Coalition urges FTC probe — More than a dozen public interest and consumer advocacy groups send a letter to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson and Commissioner Mark Meador requesting an investigation into alleged book hoarding and destruction.
- **2025**: Court rules on legally purchased books — A judge rules that Anthropic's use of legally purchased books to train Claude did not violate the asserted legal claims, according to CBS News.
- **2024-08**: Authors file copyright lawsuit against Anthropic — Andrea Bartz and other writers accuse Anthropic of acquiring, scanning, and discarding millions of print books to train AI models.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### 12+ Groups Ask FTC to Probe AI Book Destruction Under Section 5
2026-08-22 01:29:47 · Sentiment: Negative · Impact: 6/10 · Sources: 2

More than a dozen advocacy groups are asking the FTC to investigate whether AI developers' bulk purchase, scanning, and disposal of books violates Section 5's ban on unfair methods of competition. The letter highlights potential last-copy destruction, raising novel competition and cultural preservation questions for legal and compliance teams.
Full story: https://getlegalbrief.com/story/ftc-ai-book-destruction-section5-legal

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