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Anthropic has to pay authors.
In what is thought to be the largest copyright recovery case in history, a federal US judge granted final approval of Anthropic’s landmark $1.5 billion class-action settlement. In 2024, authors sued Anthropic over the training of its Claude AI chatbot using copyrighted works. Authors will be paid “as promptly as possible,” just as soon as lawyers take their $101 million cut.
TL;DR
- Anthropic has agreed to a $1.5 billion class-action settlement.
- The settlement resolves a lawsuit filed by authors in 2024.
- Authors accused Anthropic of using copyrighted works to train its Claude AI chatbot.
- This is considered the largest copyright recovery case in history.
- Lawyers will receive $101 million from the settlement.