U.S. District Judge William Alsup granted preliminary approval to a $1.5 billion settlement resolving claims that Anthropic used authors’ copyrighted works to train its AI chatbot Claude without consent. The deal is the largest copyright settlement ever, covering nearly 483,000 works and paying authors slightly more than $3,000 per infringed work.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup granted preliminary approval to a $1.5 billion settlement resolving claims that Anthropic used authors’ copyrighted works to train its AI chatbot Claude without consent. The deal is the largest copyright settlement ever, covering nearly 483,000 works and paying authors slightly more than $3,000 per infringed work.
