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Judge Approves Anthropic's $1.5B Settlement in AI Copyright Case
A federal judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who claimed their copyrighted books were used to train AI models. Authors will receive about $3,000 per book under the deal. The settlement provides "meaningful relief" while avoiding a trial over fair use in AI training.
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The settlement sidesteps a landmark ruling on whether training AI on copyrighted material is fair use, leaving that core legal question unresolved for the industry.
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