Judge Approves $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement Over Pirated Books Used To Train Claude

A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement by Anthropic regarding the use of pirated books from shadow libraries to train Claude. While training on copyrighted books was not deemed illegal, the use of pirated copies was. Authors and publishers may receive approximately $3,000 per book, with 91% of over 482,000 books already claimed. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin stated the class-action settlement provides meaningful relief to the affected parties.