Court backs Anthropic’s record $1.5bn copyright deal

A California federal judge gives the green light to Anthropic’s milestone settlement with authors who accused the AI company of training its Claude chatbot on pirated books.

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Anthropic signs historic $1.5bn copyright settlement

8 September 2025 If approved, the milestone deal will become the largest copyright recovery ever recorded—but is strictly related to pirated, not copyrighted, material in training data.

Anthropic avoids damages risk in deal with authors over AI training

27 August 2025 The AI platform settles an historic class-action lawsuit over the use of pirated books to train its Claude AI, following key rulings on fair use and class certification.

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18 July 2025 GenAI developer behind Claude could face potentially ‘enormous’ damages | Decision sets precedent that could result in several million copyright owners claiming infringement | Judge Alsup’s ‘cavalier’ attitude towards piracy may result in damages so high that Anthropic may settle, says commentator.

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