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In a groundbreaking decision on September 25, 2025, U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued preliminary approval for a $1.5 billion agreement between artificial intelligence firm Anthropic and a coalition of authors and publishers. The lawsuit alleged that Anthropic had wrongfully used around 465,000 pirated books to train its AI model,...

The discussion of artificial intelligence and copyright has circled furtively around the edges of the publishing world for years. Writers have long fretted over the emergence of AI models trained on human-authored content without permission, compensation, or even credit. When I first heard that the AI company responsible for the...

San Francisco, CA — September 10, 2025 — A federal judge blocked the approval of a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and a class of authors who alleged the company illegally appropriated their copyrighted books to use in its AI chatbot, Claude. The settlement offer—under which it...

It’s official, folks — AI can now be an auteur! In what is being described as a landmark legal victory, the artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by authors who claimed that the company misappropriated their copyrighted works to train...

The Origin of the Lawsuit The suit was filed by a group of authors who accused Anthropic of downloading and using copies of their books without permission to train its A.I. systems. At issue was their claim that this unauthorized use violated copyright laws and impeded their ability to dictate...