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US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit
The deal covers about 500,000 works and will pay roughly $3,000 per work after objections from some authors were rejected.
- On Monday, District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement resolving a class action lawsuit over the company's use of books to train its Claude chatbot.
- Now-Retired Judge William Alsup ruled that training AI on copyrighted text constitutes fair use, but found Anthropic violated rights by saving over 7 million pirated books to a "central library."
- The settlement delivers $3,000 per work across an estimated 500,000 books, with authors and copyright holders filing claims covering over 92% of works included in the agreement.
- Despite the record payout, some authors have opted out to continue separate lawsuits against Anthropic, viewing the settlement as insufficient given the legal resolution favoring the company.
- Publishers including Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier sued Google last week over the training of its AI platform Gemini, as the Anthropic settlement leaves broader legal questions unresolved without binding appeals court precedent.
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AlKhaleej TodayUS judge approves Anthropic’s landmark $1.5bn copyright settlement
SAN FRANCISCO — A US federal judge on Monday signed off on artificial intelligence company Anthropic's landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by a group of authors who accused it of misusing their books to train its AI chatbot Claude.US District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin granted final approval of the settlement, the largest known settlement of a US copyright case, rejecting arguments that it was too small.The c…
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