# 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)

### AI Accused of Destroying Millions of Books; 12+ Groups Urge FTC
2026-08-22 01:29:35 · Sentiment: Negative · Impact: 6/10 · Sources: 2

AI developers face fresh regulatory pressure over alleged bulk book purchases, digitization for LLM training, and destruction of physical copies. The claim that rare last copies may have been lost could reshape how training-data supply chains are built, sourced, and governed.
Full story: https://getaibrief.com/story/ai-hoard-destroy-books-ftc-probe

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