{"id":43162,"date":"2026-05-18T22:19:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/43162\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:19:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:19:26","slug":"anthropic-settlement-hearing-proceeds-smoothly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/43162\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic Settlement Hearing Proceeds Smoothly"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a 75-minute hearing held May 14 in a San Francisco courtroom, presiding judge Araceli Mart\u00ednez-Olgu\u00edn declined, for now, to approve to the $1.5 billion settlement in the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright infringement lawsuit\u2014but given the tone of the hearing, most observers expect the judge will give final approval for the deal relatively quickly.<\/p>\n

At the hearing, a total of seven people were each given two minutes to present their objections to the agreement. For his part, lead attorney for the plaintiffs, Justin Nelson, gave a brief update on the opt-in rate to the agreement, which has inched up from 91.3% last month to 92.77%<\/a>. <\/p>\n

There was no indication in the hearing that if the settlement is approved there would be any change in the agreement that each work in the suit would be eligible for a payout of about a $3,000 to $3,100. According to a summary from Authors Alliance,<\/a> Mart\u00ednez-Olgu\u00edn\u2019s questions focused on attorneys\u2019 fees and the structure of the cost reserve, rather than the merits of the objections.<\/p>\n

Following the hearing, the judge filed an order stating that Anthropic has until May 21 to file a supplemental brief of no more than two pages addressing why late opt-outs should not be honored in the lawsuit. She also wrote that she did not require anything more from the objectors nor will she consider any further submissions from them. Some expect final approval could come as early as next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a 75-minute hearing held May 14 in a San Francisco courtroom, presiding judge Araceli Mart\u00ednez-Olgu\u00edn declined, for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8077,2694,53,319,8073,8072,8079,8080,427,8071,8085,8084,8078,8081,8075,3027,8074,8082,8083,8086,8076],"class_list":["post-43162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-amazon-kindle","tag-amazon-com","tag-anthropic","tag-apple","tag-e-book","tag-e-books","tag-e-reader","tag-e-readers","tag-ebook","tag-ebooks","tag-enhanced-e-book","tag-enhanced-e-books","tag-ereader","tag-ereaders","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-kindle","tag-kobo","tag-nook","tag-publishers-weekly","tag-sony-reader"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43162","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=43162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}