JUST IN: Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of book authors alleging copyright infringement.
That’s at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated—well below what Anthropic may have had to pay if it had lost the case at trial.
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— WIRED (@wired.com) September 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Anthropic, which owns Claude, has agreed to settle for a minimum of 1.5 billion to authors whose books were used to train the large language modelEligible authors will recieve $3k per book usedThe plaintiffs argued that Anthropic used Libgen to download around 7 million copyrighted worksThis is the largest settlement so far for authors whose works have been used, without permission, to train llmsAnthropic next faces a class action lawsuit from major music labels who have accused it of pirating lyrics to train ClaudeIn the settlement Anthropic denies all culpubilitysource
