Attorney for plaintiffs
Represented authors in copyright lawsuit against Anthropic, stating the $1.5 billion settlement sends a message that using copyrighted works from pirate websites is wrong.
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A federal judge halted Anthropic's $1.5 billion book piracy settlement, citing concerns about lack of transparency in the claims process and insufficient protections for affected authors.
“Attorney for the authors in the settlement who stated lawyers care about ensuring proper claims receive compensation.”
Anthropic settled a landmark lawsuit with authors over illegal downloading of seven million books for AI training, marking one of the first major creator-AI company settlements while courts grapple with fair use doctrine applicability to LLM training.
“Lawyer for the authors in the settlement, characterized the deal as historic and beneficial to class members.”
Anthropic settles class action lawsuit with authors over use of copyrighted books in LLM training, with settlement terms to be announced in coming weeks.
“Plaintiffs' attorney praising the settlement as historic and beneficial to class members”
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Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to settle a copyright lawsuit from authors, representing the largest publicly reported copyright recovery on record, while also agreeing to destroy datasets containing allegedly pirated material.
“Represented authors in copyright lawsuit against Anthropic, stating the $1.5 billion settlement sends a message that using copyrighted works from pirate websites is wrong.”