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US court gives preliminary approval to ‘fair settlement’ between Anthropic and authors

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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...

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Emmanuel is a Washington, DC-based freelance journalist, blogger and media consultant, specialising in the entertainment business and cultural trends. He was the US editor for British music industry trade publication Music Week. Previously, he was the editor of Impact, a magazine for the music publishing community (2007-2009), the global editor of US trade publication Billboard (2003-2006), and the editor in chief of Billboard’s sister publication Music & Media (1997-2003).

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Record labels and Internet Archive settle

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September 23, 2025

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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...

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Anthropic’s settlement with authors and publishers still faces a few hurdles

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September 22, 2025

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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...

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Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music allege Suno ripped tracks from YouTube to train its model

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September 21, 2025

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Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment have filed a new lawsuit against Suno, accusing the AI music company of using stream-ripping services to access music content from YouTube to train the AI music generator. The three majors have already engaged in litigation with Suno for allegedly using unlicensed music to train its model.
Billboard reports that the complaint states that stream-ripping violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by circumventing YouT...

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