Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge

The Verge · 1 month ago · 38 ● 3 sources

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.