Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge
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A federal judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors who sued over copyrighted books used to train its AI models. The deal provides approximately $3,000 per book to affected authors and represents the largest known copyright recovery settlement in history. Authors can now receive compensation, and AI companies face clearer financial liability for using copyrighted training data without permission.
Why it matters
A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an order on Monday, Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín writes that the settlement will provide "meaningful relief," offering authors around $3,000 for each book […]
