Morning Edition · Thursday, July 23, 2026Published at 1:46 AM EDT · New York
Judge Gives Final Approval to Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Settlement Over Pirated Training Books
The payout works out to about $3,000 for each of roughly 500,000 works copied from pirate libraries, a major settlement in AI copyright litigation.
US District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín gave final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion class-action settlement, ruling the terms fair, reasonable, and adequate. The company will pay about $3,000 for each of roughly 500,000 works it copie…
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