US EditionAuthors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Anthropic faces claims of using 7 million copyrighted books without permission for AI training, with a settlement benefiting millions expected soon, marking the largest such class action.
- Anthropic, an AI company, and a group of authors reached a class-wide settlement in a copyright infringement lawsuit in late August 2025 in San Francisco.
- The settlement followed mediation earlier in August and occurred shortly before the scheduled December trial over allegations that Anthropic used a vast number of unauthorized copies of books to train its language model Claude.
- In June, US District Judge William Alsup found that Anthropic’s training of its AI on copyrighted books was highly transformative and could meet the standards for fair use, but he still permitted the lawsuit to move forward as a class action representing up to seven million potential plaintiffs.
- Justin A. Nelson, speaking on behalf of the authors, described the agreement as a landmark resolution that will provide advantages to all members of the class, although the specific terms were not disclosed and the settlement does not establish a legal precedent.
- The settlement may pave the way for future licensing in AI training and could legitimize claims by copyright owners, signaling significant financial implications for the AI industry.
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Anthropic’s surprise settlement adds new wrinkle in AI copyright war
Anthropic’s class action settlement with a group of U.S. authors this week was a first, but legal experts said the case’s distinct qualities complicate the deal’s potential influence on a wave of ongoing copyright lawsuits.
Huge Number of Authors Stand to Get Paid After Anthropic Agrees to Settle Potentially $1 Trillion Lawsuit
As OpenAI's ChatGPT and its imitators exploded onto the world stage over the past few years, they kicked off a series of legal showdowns that are still working their way through the courts. The New York Times is suing OpenAI. Disney is suing Midjourney. And in a class action case representing potentially millions of writers, book authors are suing Anthropic. All these cases are orbiting around a central question: what do the creators of modern A…
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