A $1.5 Billion Wake-Up Call for Every AI Company on Wall Street
The payout covers flat per-book payments, though many Irish titles may be excluded because U.S. copyright registration is required.
- In July, a federal judge in San Francisco granted final approval of a $1.5 billion settlement between authors and Anthropic, with hundreds of Irish writers set to share millions of euro.
- The class-action case centered on Anthropic's reliance on the LibGen online library to train its Claude AI models; while a judge ruled using books to train AI is not inherently illegal, acquiring works through pirate websites violated authors' rights.
- With 482,000 works involved, more than 91% of eligible authors have claimed their share of the $1.5 billion settlement, which provides about $3,000 for each book believed to have been copied.
- Children's author Oisín McGann expects up to €10,000, while Conor Kostick, disputes officer for the Irish Writers Union, stands to receive up to €7,500, and Ivan O'Brien at the O'Brien Press anticipates receiving over €10,000.
- Legal expert Scannell, a partner at William Fry, warns the settlement could prove detrimental long-term by appearing to cement 'fair use' protections for AI training using non-pirated material, though the Irish Writers Union hopes this legal action prompts further cases against technology giants.
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Authors wary of content ownership despite court ruling on Anthropic case
The literary community is celebrating the final word from the court on a landmark class action copyright infringement lawsuit in which the AI company Anthropic is paying out $1.5 billion to authors for pirating their works. But the ruling does not prevent AI companies from training their AI models on authors' work going forwards as long as they purchase texts legally. What are the implications of this?
A $1.5 Billion Wake-Up Call for Every AI Company on Wall Street
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Authors wary of content ownership after Anthropic’s $1.5B court ruling reshapes AI training rights
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