On Monday, a federal judge in San Francisco granted final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion class-action settlement with a group of authors who accused the artificial intelligence startup of improperly using their books to train its Claude chatbot.
Judge Approves Record Anthropic AI Copyright Settlement U.S.
District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin signed off on what is believed to be the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history, rejecting objections from some authors who argued the agreement was inadequate, Reuters reported.
The lawsuit, originally filed in 2024, is one of dozens brought by authors, publishers and other copyright holders against AI companies over the use of copyrighted works to train large language models.
It is also the first major AI copyright case in the U.S. to settle.
