Anthropic's landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved
The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models. Anthropic can finally start cutting checks to a group of authors and book publishers that sued the AI lab over copyright infringement. A federal judge gave final approval Monday of Anthropic's landmark $1.
Key Takeaways
- 5 billion settlement of a class action copyright lawsuit, Reuters reported .
District Court for the Northern District of California issued a preliminary approval of the settlement last year, after ruling that Anthropic had illegally downloaded and stored millions of copyrighted books.
- copyright law, many authors and creators still don't view it as a win.
- Alsup found the second method illegal on its own terms and said that piracy question could go to trial; Anthropic agreed to a settlement soon after to avoid a trial and whatever damages a jury might have awarded.
While the final approval closes out this case, it doesn't settle the legal question industry-wide because Alsup's ruling was a single district court decision, and Anthropic's decision to settle means the case will never reach an appeals court to become binding precedent.
- filed a class action lawsuit against Google over accusations that the company used their copyrighted works to train its AI platform, Gemini.
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- #5 billion settlement of a class action copyright lawsuit, Reuters reported .
5 billion settlement of a class action copyright lawsuit, Reuters reported . District Court for the Northern District of California issued a preliminary approval of the settlement last year, after ruling that Anthropic had illegally downloaded and stored millions of copyrighted books. Alsup has since retired and Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin signed off on the settlement on Monday.
The payout will deliver $3,000 per work across an estimated 500,000 works, shared among the authors and publishers who hold rights to them. While the settlement is believed to be the largest in the history of U. copyright law, many authors and creators still don't view it as a win.
That's because of how the legal question was resolved. Alsup sided with Anthropic on the core issue. He ruled that training an AI model on copyrighted text counts as fair use - a decision widely seen as a turning point for the AI industry.
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