# 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.

- Published: 2026-07-23T05:46:05.758Z
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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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