US District Judge William Alsup from the District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary approval of the $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright infringement class action against AI startup Anthropic brought by Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson.
According to the terms of the settlement, Anthropic will pay authors and publishers about $3,000 for each of the 465,000 books that have been listed as pirated by Anthropic through platforms like LibGen...

Digital content repository Internet Archive (IA) and its founder Brewster Kahle alongside music companies Universal Music, Sony Music and Concord have filed with the US District Court for the Northern District of California a joint notice of settlement in the legal dispute regarding the digitisation of copyrighted recordings by the IA.
Details of the settlement were not disclosed. The IA posted the following message: "The parties have reached a confidential resolution of all claims and will have...

Anthropic's decision to settle a class action lawsuit brought by a group of authors, who accused the AI startup of using content sourced illegally to train its Claude AI model, has reshaped the legal narrative on the use of copyrighted works to train AI models.
Anthropic announced that it was ready to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle the class action lawsuit (or about $3,000 per book plus interest) and agreed to destroy the datasets containing the allegedly pirated material. Some 465,000 book...