Judge approves Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors
Ars Technica AI · rss · 2026-07-22
A judge approved Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors, ending the largest copyright class action ever certified.
- The settlement follows a ruling that Anthropic’s AI training on books could qualify as fair use, but its piracy of works likely could not.
- Some authors opposed the deal, arguing that legal fees were too high and payouts were too low.
- Only 350 authors opted out, despite the settlement’s scale.
The decision closes a major copyright case that had been hanging over Anthropic’s use of book data for training.
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