Bloomsbury Publishing is a beneficiary of a significant $1.5 billion settlement. This agreement resolves claims that Anthropic used copyrighted books without permission. A U.S. court identified over 14,000 Bloomsbury titles covered by this landmark payout. Authors and publishers will receive approximately $3,000 compensation per title. Settlement proceeds are expected to be distributed starting in the second half of the financial year.

The dispute is one of several in which copyright holders have sued AI companies over how they have trained their large language models (LLMs).

Anthropic settles with authors and publishers for $1.5B in landmark copyright case - SiliconANGLE

Anthropic must pay thousands of impacted authors.