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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Anthropic settlement approved | Books+Publishing
In the US, Publishers Weekly (PW) reports that Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín has given her final approval to the US$1.5 billion settlement in the class action lawsuit brought against Anthropic in 2024 for engaging in copyright infringement to build its large language models. The initial ruling by US District Judge William Alsup – whose retirement prompted […]
It is "the largest copyright recovery ever registered", according to counsel for the complainants.
Judge Approves $1.5 Billion Settlement in Anthropic Copyright Case
A federal judge in San Francisco on July 21 approved a $1.5 billion settlement in a copyright lawsuit against AI giant Anthropic by a group of authors that alleged the company used pirated copies of their books to train its AI model Claude. “We reached this settlement in 2025, after the court’s landmark ruling that training AI on books is fair use under copyright law—which remains the law today,” Anthropic attorney Aparna Sridhar said in a sta…
A comparison was made in the dispute over the pirate copies used for the training of the chatbot Claude. Authors receive an average of $3,000 per book.
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