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Anthropic settles with authors in first-of-its-kind AI copyright infringement lawsuit

In one of the largest copyright settlements involving generative artificial intelligence, Anthropic AI, a leading company in the generative AI space, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by a group of authors.

If the court approves the settlement, Anthropic will compensate authors around $3,000 for each of the estimated 500,000 books covered by the settlement.

The settlement, which U.S. Senior District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco will consider approving next week, is in a case that involved the first substantive decision on how fair use applies to generative AI systems. It also suggests an inflection point in the ongoing legal fights between the creative industries and the AI companies accused of illegally using artistic works to train the large language models that underpin their widely-used AI systems.

Author note: my book The Tick Tock Man is on this list

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-55 ... pyright-ai

Wow.

Does the settlement include something that prevents them from doing it anymore?

I don’t know, but…

If I can make three large from every illegally downloaded work then they can have my entire library.

Holy shit

Wow - a slippery slope.

If you know any authors, have them check the database on this site:


https://secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

I use an app called Grammarly to help proof my book reviews before posting them on my website, and one thing it has done since I began using it is to check my reviews for possible plagiarism. I don't plagiarize anybody else's work, but if you are describing the plot of a book or film, it's often the case that two different reviewers will use similar phraseology. When that happened, it would flag my review and note that a sentence or two matched something in another location on the internet.

In the last year, they've added an AI check to the app as well. It analyzes your work to see if it appears to be written by AI. One of my reviews got flagged, but I don't know why, and since I don't use AI, I didn't worry about it.