{"id":301912,"date":"2026-07-21T16:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301912\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T16:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:55:08","slug":"judge-approves-1-5-billion-copyright-settlement-with-ai-firm-anthropic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301912\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge approves $1.5 billion copyright settlement with AI firm Anthropic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/anthropic-copyright-authors-settlement-training-f294266bc79a16ec90d2ddccdf435164\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">copyright settlement<\/a> in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot.<\/p>\n<p>District Judge Araceli Mart\u00ednez-Olgu\u00edn said in a Monday ruling that the class-action settlement provides \u201cmeaningful relief\u201d to affected authors and publishers.<\/p>\n<p>About 91% of the more than 482,000 books covered by the ruling have been claimed by authors or publishers who are now due payment.<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiff attorney Justin Nelson said in a statement that the settlement was \u201cthe largest known copyright recovery in history. We look forward to making distributions to the Class as promptly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued the preliminary approval in San Francisco federal court last September and has since retired. Alsup had dealt the case a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/anthropic-ai-fair-use-copyright-pirated-libraries-1e5cece51c2e4bd0bb21d94de2abb035\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mixed ruling<\/a> last summer, finding that training AI chatbots on copyrighted books wasn\u2019t illegal but that Anthropic wrongfully acquired millions of books through pirate websites.<\/p>\n<p>Bestselling thriller novelist Andrea Bartz first brought the suit with two other authors in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3250,39434,35100,2878,98,100,99,114464,32953,3100,9,24,63,34339],"class_list":["post-301912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-authors","tag-books","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-claude","tag-copyright","tag-lawsuit","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-settlement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}