{"id":112835,"date":"2026-07-21T04:21:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/112835\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T04:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:21:25","slug":"anthropics-1-5b-settlement-of-authors-ai-copyright-lawsuit-gets-greenlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/112835\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement of authors’ AI copyright lawsuit gets greenlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday signed off on artificial intelligence company\u00a0Anthropic\u2019s landmark $1.5 billion settlement<\/a> of a class action lawsuit brought by a group of authors who accused it of misusing their books to train its AI chatbot Claude.<\/p>\n

District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin<\/a>\u00a0granted\u00a0final approval of the settlement, the largest known settlement of a US copyright case,\u00a0rejecting arguments that it was too small.<\/p>\n

The case is\u00a0one of dozens<\/a>\u00a0brought by copyright owners including authors and news outlets against tech companies over the training of their large language models, and the first major US case to settle.<\/p>\n

\"DarioThe writers\u00a0sued\u00a0Anthropic\u00a0in 2024, arguing that the company, which is \u200cbacked by \u2060Amazon and Alphabet, used pirated versions of their books without permission to teach Claude to respond to human prompts. CEO Dario Amodei, above. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Now-retired Judge William Alsup\u00a0initially approved\u00a0the deal last September.<\/p>\n

Spokespeople for\u00a0Anthropic\u00a0did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are gratified by the Court\u2019s ruling granting final approval of this historic settlement. It is the largest known copyright recovery in history,\u201d the authors\u2019 lead attorney Justin Nelson said in a statement. \u201cWe look forward to making distributions to the Class as promptly as possible,\u201d\u00a0Nelson said, referring to payments to authors covered by the settlement.<\/p>\n

The writers\u00a0sued\u00a0Anthropic<\/a>\u00a0in 2024, arguing that the company, which is \u200cbacked by \u2060Amazon and Alphabet, used pirated versions of their books without permission to teach Claude to respond to human prompts.<\/p>\n

Alsup\u00a0ruled last June\u00a0\u200bthat\u00a0Anthropic\u00a0made fair \u2060use of the authors\u2019 work to train Claude, but found that the company violated their rights by saving more than 7 million pirated books to a \u201ccentral library\u201d \u200bthat would not necessarily be used for AI training. A trial was scheduled to begin last December \u2060to determine how much\u00a0Anthropic\u00a0owed for the alleged piracy, with potential damages running into the hundreds of billions of dollars.<\/p>\n

\"TheSome of the authors argued the settlement wasn\u2019t big enough. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n

Authors and other copyright holders\u00a0filed claims\u00a0covering over 92% of the more than 480,000 works included in the settlement, an attorney for the authors said during a court hearing.<\/p>\n

The settlement spurred objections from some authors who argued it \u200bwas\u00a0not large enough, overcompensated the plaintiffs\u2019 attorneys or wrongly excluded some copyright owners.<\/p>\n

Judge Martinez-Olguin overruled those objections in her ruling on Monday. The judge said that complaints about the settlement\u2019s size were \u201cnot grounded in a realistic assessment of the overall risks and rewards of a trial,\u201d and awarded the attorneys more than $101 million of the $187.5 million they requested in fees.<\/p>\n

Some authors and publishers opted out of the settlement and have filed\u00a0separate lawsuits\u00a0against\u00a0Anthropic\u00a0that are\u00a0still ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday signed off on artificial intelligence company\u00a0Anthropic\u2019s landmark $1.5 billion settlement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,25,309,46132,3261,7602,26283,781],"class_list":["post-112835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-copyright-law","tag-dario-amodei","tag-lawsuits","tag-settlements","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}