Anthropic Begins Distributing $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement Funds, Authors and Publishers Dispute Allocation
Anthropic reached a settlement in a copyright class-action lawsuit. The court ruled that using copyrighted materials to train AI models constitutes fair use and is legal; however, obtaining uncopyrighted materials through piracy is not. Therefore, Anthropic will compensate the original authors of nearly 500,000 pirated works used in training, at $3,000 per work, totaling $1.5 billion.