US judge closes the book on first big AI copyright suit, ordering Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion settlement
A US judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement between AI company Anthropic and a group of authors. The lawsuit alleged that Anthropic used millions of pirated books to train its Claude chatbot. The settlement covers approximately 500,000 works, with eligible authors and publishers receiving $3,000 per pirated work.
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- Kirk Wallace Johnson
- Copyright Law
- Andrea Bartz
- Anthropic
- Charles Graeber
- Generative AI
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