US judge approves Anthropic copyright lawsuit settlement

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A US federal judge in San Francisco has granted final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of a class action lawsuit filed by authors who said their books were pirated to train its Claude chatbot.
It is the largest known US copyright settlement and the first major case over AI training to settle.
The judge had earlier ruled that training Claude on the books was fair use, but that storing over 7 million pirated books violated authors' rights.
Claims were filed for over 92 per cent of the more than 480,000 works covered, though some authors objected or opted out and are pursuing separate lawsuits.

Separate lawsuits by authors and publishers who opted out of the settlement are ongoing.
Objections from some authors over the settlement's size, attorney fees and exclusions.
Outcomes of the dozens of other copyright cases against tech companies over AI training.

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Named United States · Claude · San Francisco · Alphabet · Amazon · Anthropic · Araceli Martinez-Olguin · William Alsup

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