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Anthropic Pays $1.5B to Authors | Global News
- Published
- July 21, 2026
- Duration
- 1:44
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- Last updated
- Jul 22, 2026
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Anthropic is paying $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit from authors who claim their books were stolen to train Claude — a massive win for creators and a potential precedent for how AI companies handle copyrighted material. The case centered on Anthropic’s use of pirated books, with a judge previously ruling that while training AI on copyrighted…
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Anthropic is paying $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit from authors who claim their books were stolen to train Claude — a massive win for creators and a potential precedent for how AI companies handle copyrighted material. The case centered on Anthropic’s use of pirated books, with a judge previously ruling that while training AI on copyrighted works might be fair use, illegally downloading millions of books from pirate sites was not. Authors like Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Ki
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