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Anthropic settles copyright case with authors for $1.5 billion
The court found Anthropic was liable for using unauthorized copies to train its AI models, and authors will split the settlement after lawyers take a portion.
Anthropic reached a $1.5 billion settlement with authors behind a class-action lawsuit over alleged copyright infringement tied to training its Claude chatbot, according to Yahoo Finance. The agreement followed a lawsuit filed about two years earlier, with July marking the settlement. The outlet reports that the court’s decision did not treat AI training as automatically violating copyright law. Instead, it ruled Anthropic was liable for using unauthorized copies of the works used in training, while the company argued that the fair use doctrine should allow certain uses of copyrighted material. Yahoo Finance also notes the dispute focused on whether fair use applies when AI systems are trained on books to generate new writing. Authors said the fast generation capability gives AI systems an inherent advantage over human authors, according to the article. On the personal side, the story says author Chris Graeber expected $3,100 per book for the two titles Anthropic used without authorization for training. The article adds that lawyers will receive a portion of the settlement, leaving thousands of authors to share the remainder.