Grescoe c. Anthropic PBC, 2025 QCCS 4003
2025-11-06
Read full decision. Summary prepared by Alan Macek:
Applicant wishes to stay his Application for Authorization to Institute a Class Action and to Obtain the Status of Representative which was filed on July 2, 2025 (the “Quebec Action”) pending a final judgment on the putative class action before the Supreme Court of British Columbia in MacKinnon and Anthropic PBC, court docket number S-254893 (the “BC Action”). Defendant does not oppose the stay. ... the BC Action was filed against Anthropic PBC on behalf of all natural persons or corporations, resident in Canada, who owned or co-owned the copyright to works used by Anthropic to train one of the various versions of the Anthropic Large Language Models ... The Court considers that it is in the interest of justice to stay the Quebec Action