{
  "id": 12667,
  "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/22/bloomsbury-book-publisher-anthropic-copyright-settlement",
  "title": "Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlement",
  "summary": "Bloomsbury has 14,087 titles listed in agreement between AI startup and authors over use of their work The publisher of Harry Potter has received a multimillion-pound payout as a beneficiary of a $1.5bn (£1.12bn) copyright settlement between the AI startup Anthropic and thousands of authors over the use of their protected work to power chatbots. Bloomsbury, which is home to the bestselling novelists Sarah J Maas and Susanna Clarke as well as JK Rowling, said it had 14,087 titles listed within th",
  "authors": "Dan Milmo and Mark Sweney",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "copyright-ip",
  "orgs": "anthropic",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-22T13:28:09.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-23T05:10:49.458Z",
  "source_slug": "guardian-ai",
  "source_name": "The Guardian",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.theguardian.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12667",
  "original_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/22/bloomsbury-book-publisher-anthropic-copyright-settlement",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}