Authors today revealed that Anthropic agreed to pay $ 1.5 billion and to destroy all the copies of the books that the AI company has illegal to train its artificial intelligence models.
In a press release to ARS, the authors confirmed that the settlement “is supposed to be the largest audience to be reported in the history of the American copyright disputes.” With 500,000 works that anthropic piracy for AI training, when a court approves the settlement, every author receives $ 3,000 per work that anthropic stolen. “Depending on the number of claims submitted, the final figure per work could be higher,” the press release noted.
Anthropic has already agreed to the settlement conditions, but a court must approve them before the settlement has been completed. Provisional approval can be granted this week, while the ultimate decision can be postponed until 2026, the press release noted.
Justin Nelson, A Lawyer Representing The Three Authors Who Initia Initally SUED To Spark The Class Action – Andrea Bartz, Kirk Wallace Johnson, and Charles Graber – Confirmed That If the “Firl of Its Child” Settlement “in the ai era” in the ai era ” Known Copyright Recovery. “
“It will offer a meaningful reimbursement for every class work and is a precedent that requires AI companies to pay copyright owners,” Nelson said. “This settlement sends both a powerful message to AI companies and makers that taking copyright protected works of these pirate websites is wrong.”
Groups representing authors celebrated the settlement on Friday. The CEO of The Authors' Guild, Mary Rasenberger, said it was “an excellent result for authors, publishers and legal horses in general.” Perhaps the most critical, the settlement shows: “There are serious consequences when” companies “pirate authors work to train their AI, which are the least able to afford it,” said Rasenberger.
