Anthropic, an artificial intelligence firm, “has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit filed by several authors” who accused the company of pirating their work to train its AI models. Although a US court had previously determined that Anthropic’s use of the authors’ books was “exceedingly transformative” and therefore allowed under US law, the judge still ordered Anthropic to stand trial and refused to dismiss the case. The settlement, which still needs court approval, “would be the largest publicly-reported copyright recovery in history”. It is also notable for setting a precedent in the AI era, as lawyers for the plaintiffs stated: “This settlement sends a powerful message to AI companies and creators alike that taking copyrighted works from these pirate websites is wrong.”
The broader issue of copyright in AI model training, mentioning ongoing lawsuits against other major tech companies and the debate among experts on the need to compensate human creators for their original contributions.
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Jamali, L. (2025, September 5). AI firm Anthropic agrees to pay authors $1.5bn for pirating work. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4jpg922qo