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Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement
Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims of unauthorized use of 500,000 copyrighted books for AI training, setting a precedent for future AI copyright cases.
- Anthropic announced after reaching a deal on Aug. 26 that it will pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by authors and asked U.S. District Judge William Alsup to approve it.
- Plaintiffs said the company used Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror to amass training data, and Judge Alsup found Anthropic stored more than 7 million pirated books in a central library.
- Plaintiffs' filings say the deal pays about $3,000 per work for 500,000 books, with additional $3,000 per work if the list exceeds 500,000, and Susman Godfrey will seek no more than 25 in fees.
- Anthropic said it will destroy the downloaded book files under the agreement, which includes no admission of liability and marks the first U.S. class-action AI copyright settlement.
- Experts warn the award estimates show the financial stakes for AI firms as damages could surpass $1 trillion; Anthropic recently raised $13 billion, valued at $183 billion, and faces other legal risks this year.
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The company has agreed to pay $3,000 per book for the 500,000 books covered by the settlement.
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Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement
In what’s potentially the first major payout to creatives whose work was used to train AI systems, Anthropic has reached an agreement to pay “at least” a staggering $1.5 billion, plus interest, to authors to settle its class-action lawsuit. The amount breaks down to smaller payouts expected to be approximately $3,000 per book or work. Lawyers for the plaintiffs said it’s “believed to be the largest publicly reported recovery in the history of US…
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