Judge approves Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement with authors over Claude training
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-07-21
A U.S. judge approved Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors whose books were used to train Claude.
- The case began after writers accused the company of using pirated copies of their books.
- The judge said training on books was fair use, but separately found that storing more than 7 million pirated books in a central library was itself infringement.
- The settlement is now the largest known in a U.S. copyright case.
- Anthropic avoided the risk of a trial that could have led to damages in the hundreds of billions.
- 91% of covered authors have already claimed compensation, though some writers argue the payout is too small and the fees too high.
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