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Judge approves $1.5 billion copyright settlement between AI company Anthropic and authors

The settlement compensates authors about $3,000 per work for nearly 500,000 pirated books used without permission to train Anthropic’s AI, marking a legal first.

  • A $1.5 billion copyright settlement between AI company Anthropic and authors has been approved by District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco federal court.
  • The settlement will pay authors and publishers about $3,000 for each book covered by the agreement, to address Anthropic's wrongful acquisition of copyrighted books to train its AI chatbot Claude.
  • Bestselling author Andrea Bartz, who sued Anthropic last year, supports the settlement and will explain its significance to fellow writers, while Judge Alsup plans to step down by year-end.
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Anthropic, prosecuted for training his AI with millions of illegally downloaded books, will have to pay $1.5 billion to authors and publishers.

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A federal judge in San Francisco preliminary approved the $1.5 billion agreement between Anthropic and a group of authors who denounced a violation of their rights for the use of pirated books to train their AI. If they received final approval, the agreement would be the largest copyright recovery publicly reported to date in the United States.Read more]]>

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