Anthropic is paying $1.5 billion, the biggest copyright settlement in history.
Claude’s creator agreed to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit. Will this case change the way AI companies train their models?
The company confirmed a settlement with authors and publishers who accused it of copying and storing about half a million books downloaded from pirate sources. Anthropic has also committed to removing the illegal collections. Even if the creator of Claude hasn’t pleaded guilty, it’s closing one of the most media-covered disputes around generative AI.
A groundbreaking verdict, a symbolic amount
The settlement not only sets a record amount — it also establishes the limit of what can be considered “fair use” in training AI models. The court indicated that using legally acquired content might be allowed, but downloading data from pirate libraries is not. This shifts the weight of the debate from “can AI learn from books?” to “where do these books come from?”
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