Authors Can See If They Can Get a Piece of that $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement

News Podcast: Anthropic Settlement Moves Forward, Spotify Clarifies Terms, L. J. Ross Shortlisted, TikTok Secures US Future

On this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, Dan Holloway reports that the judge in the Anthropic case has approved the settlement process, confirming 482,000 eligible titles with payments split 50/50 between authors and publishers. He clarifies that Spotify’s new terms do not affect creators, celebrates L. J. Ross’s shortlist nomination at the UK Speakies audiobook awards, and notes that TikTok’s US operations will move to a US-run…

Bartz v Anthropic settlement: further information

Following our statement of 26 September 2025 regarding the preliminary approval of the $1.5 billion Bartz v Anthropic settlement, a dedicated settlement website is now live. https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com The website includes: Information about the settlement Key dates A list of works included in the settlement Claims documents The works list https://secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup allows users to search by ISBN/ASI…

Authors Can See If They Can Get a Piece of that $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Authors Can See If They Can Get a Piece of that $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement There is $1.5 billion (less lawyer fees and administrative costs) up for authors to grab if their work was among the training data subject to the massive (but maybe even somehow still too small) lawsuit against Anthropic, and authors can no…