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IP Attorney Randy McCarthy for CNBC - At 20 years old, Reddit is defending its data and fighting AI with AI

June 2025

CNBC

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While book authors have taken companies like Meta and Anthropic to court alleging that their AI models break copyright law and have suffered recent losses, Reddit is basing its lawsuit on the argument of unfair business practices. Reddit’s case appears to center on Anthropic’s “commercial exploitation of the data which they don’t own,” said Randy McCarthy , head of the IP law group at Hall Estill.

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