A U.S. federal court approved the $1.5 billion copyright settlement between Anthropic and a group of authors, resolving a lawsuit over the use of copyrighted books as training data for the Claude chatbot. The agreement covers over 482,000 books, with an average compensation of approximately $3,000 per book, and is considered the largest copyright recovery case in history.
The first major AI copyright settlement establishes a clear financial liability for AI model training data, forcing developers to destroy infringing datasets.