Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion over pirated books used to train Claude in first major AI copyright settlement
Anthropic will pay roughly $3,000 per book to thousands of writers in what plaintiffs call the largest copyright recovery ever.
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Published: 21 July 2026
Source: Fortune AI
Category: News
Topics: Copyright & IP
Retrieved: 22 July 2026
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