India, July 21 -- A federal judge in the U.S. has officially approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement from a class-action lawsuit filed by authors and book publishers concerning the company's use of copyrighted content to train its AI models.
Under the terms of the settlement, authors and publishers will receive $3,000 for each work involved, which impacts around 500,000 books in total. This deal is thought to be the largest copyright settlement in the history of the U.S.
This case stemmed from a decision made by Judge William Alsup, stating that Anthropic illegally downloaded and stored millions of copyrighted books from various pirate websites. However, he also determined that using books for AI training may fall under fair use.
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