Judge Approves Anthropic’s $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement With Authors
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Judge Approves Anthropic’s $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement With Authors

The payout of $3,000 per pirated book across an estimated 500,000 works ranks as the largest copyright recovery on record, yet it leaves the core legal question over AI training unsettled.

Richard Miniter
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First Published: July 22, 2026, 6:35 AM ET

WASHINGTON — Anthropic, the San Francisco AI lab behind the Claude chatbot, won final court approval to pay $1.5 billion to authors and publishers who accused it of training its models on pirated books.