Judge Approves $1.5 Billion Anthropic Copyright Settlement With Authors Over Pirated Book Data
A federal judge in San Francisco approved Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought by authors who accused the artificial intelligence maker of storing millions of pirated books to train its Claude chatbot. The payout represents the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history.
The settlement resolves claims that Anthropic saved more than 7 million stolen book copies into an internal library, a practice the court found to be infringement separate from training the model. While the same judge previously ruled that using books for AI training qualified as fair use, the company faced trial risks that could have pushed damages into the hundreds of billions. The agreement covers thousands of writers and nearly 500,000 works, averaging roughly $4,000 per title, though some authors opted out or criticized the fee structure.
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@techmemeJudge approves Anthropic's $1.5B settlement with authors, the first major US case of its kind to settle; some authors opted out and have other ongoing lawsuits (@blakebrittain / Reuters) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full contex
@andrewcurran_A federal judge today approved the largest copyright class settlement in U.S. history. $1.5 billion from Anthropic to authors who said their books were used as training data for Claude. Preliminary approval came last September. https://t.co
@mtsliveSITUATION DETECTED: A federal judge has finalized Anthropic’s $1.5 billion payout to authors who said their books were used to train Claude, the largest copyright class settlement in US history, per Reuters.
@reutersUS judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit
@rohanpaul_aiA US judge just approved Anthropic's $1.5B payout to authors whose books trained Claude. It is the largest known settlement in any US copyright case. The fight started when writers sued the company for grabbing pirated copies of their boo
@stevesiThis is thousands of authors and almost 500,000 works. It seems to average out (no idea if that is the payment formula) to $4000/work. This all sounds like a lot but is increasingly looking like Google Books precedent which they won in co
@liangsaysRT @stevesi: This is thousands of authors and almost 500,000 works. It seems to average out (no idea if that is the payment formula) to $40…
@polymarketJUST IN: Federal judge approves Anthropic's $1,500,000,000.00 copyright settlement, the largest known payout in U.S. copyright history.
@reutersA federal judge in San Francisco signed off on artificial intelligence company Anthropic's landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by a group of authors who accused it of misusing their books to train its AI chat
@jun_songNow, this $1.5 billion will simply be passed on to consumer pricing. At the end of the day, Anthropic isn't the one paying for it.
@cointelegraph🇺🇸 LATEST: A US federal judge has approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement over claims it used pirated books to train Claude, marking the largest copyright payout on record.
@brianroemmeleThis is a big deal.
@reutersAnthropic reached a $1.5 billion settlement in a copyright case brought by a group of authors who accused it of misusing their books to train its Claude AI model, the largest known settlement of its kind https://t.co
@marionawfal🇺🇸 Anthropic reached a $1.5 billion class-action settlement after authors accused the company of building a library of more than 7 million pirated books to help train Claude. The court ruled that training the AI itself could qualify as fai