artificial intelligence<\/a> company Anthropic\u2019s proposed $1.5 \u200cbillion settlement with authors who accused it of misusing their books to train \u200cits AI chatbot Claude.<\/p>\nU.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin did not grant final approval at the hearing in \u200bSan Francisco, instead asking for more detail on issues including lawyers\u2019 fees and payments to lead plaintiffs in what is the largest known U.S. copyright settlement.<\/p>\n
Now-retired Judge William Alsup initially greenlit the agreement last September.<\/p>\n
The case is one of dozens brought by copyright owners including \u200cauthors and news outlets against \u2060tech companies over the training of their large language models, and the first major U.S. case to settle.<\/p>\n
Authors and other copyright holders \u2060filed claims covering over 92% of the more than 480,000 works included in the settlement, an attorney for the authors said during the hearing. The settlement has spurred objections from authors \u200bwho \u200bhave argued it is not large enough, overcompensates \u200bthe plaintiffs’ attorneys or wrongly excludes \u200csome copyright owners.<\/p>\n
The writers sued Anthropic in 2024, arguing that the company, which is backed by Amazon and Alphabet, used pirated versions of their books without permission to teach Claude to respond to human prompts.<\/p>\n
Alsup ruled last June that Anthropic made fair use of the authors’ work to train Claude, but found that the company violated their rights \u200cby saving more than 7 million pirated books \u200bto a “central library” that would not necessarily be \u200bused for AI training. A trial \u200bwas scheduled to begin in December to determine how much Anthropic \u200cowed for the alleged piracy, with potential \u200bdamages running into the \u200bhundreds of billions of dollars.<\/p>\n
Some authors and publishers making similar claims have filed separate lawsuits against Anthropic that are still ongoing. A group of more than \u200b25 writers who opted \u200cout of the settlement, including Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, filed a new \u200bcomplaint against Anthropic in California on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Blake Brittain in Washington, \u200bEditing by Alexia Garamfalvi and Sanjeev Miglani)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Blake Brittain May 14 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday pressed lawyers for more information on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,18617,25,24207,24210,969,24208,24209],"class_list":["post-39409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-anthropics","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-authors","tag-federal-judge","tag-san-francisco","tag-the-settlement","tag-william-alsup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39409","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=39409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}