Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved
TechCrunch AI Kirsten Korosec
A federal judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors and publishers who sued over illegal downloading of books for AI training. The settlement pays $3,000 per work across 500,000 works, though the judge ruled that using copyrighted text for training is fair use—only the piracy method was illegal. The case won't set binding precedent since Anthropic settled, leaving other AI companies like Google and OpenAI to face similar lawsuits with uncertain outcomes.
Why it matters
The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.
