The authors and publishers who landed a $1.5 billion settlement with Anthropic PBC over its AI training process now must decide out how to split the pot while satisfying a judge who could still send the case to trial.
The settlement covers some 465,000 books that Anthropic downloaded from pirate libraries while acquiring content to train its Claude AI model, an unprecedented volume of works in a copyright settlement. With authors and publishers both claiming rights in these books, determining who gets what share of the roughly $3,000-per-book payout is going to be “contentious or problematic,” said Bill Rosenblatt, ...