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Judge Approves Anthropic’s $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement With Authors Over Claude

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A federal judge has finalized Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors who claimed their books were used as training data for the Claude artificial intelligence model, establishing the largest copyright class settlement in U.S. history.

Preliminary approval for the agreement was granted last September. Some authors opted out of the deal and maintain separate lawsuits. The settlement resolves the first major U.S. dispute over artificial intelligence training data to reach a final resolution.

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@techmeme

Judge 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

@mtslive

SITUATION 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.

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