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Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge

Anthropic agrees to a historic $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors over AI training data. A federal judge approved the class action, which provides approximately $3,000 per pirated book in what is the largest copyright recovery ever recorded. This landmark legal outcome sets a major precedent for how generative AI companies license and utilize copyrighted literary works for model training.

The Verge·Jul 21, 2026

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