Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge
The $3,000 per book payment could be the ‘largest known copyright recovery in history.’
by Emma Roth
Jul 21, 2026, 4:53 PM UTC
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A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic’s $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an order on Monday, Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín writes that the settlement will provide “meaningful relief,” offering authors around $3,000 for each book allegedly pirated by Anthropic.
The $1.5 billion settlement is the “largest known copyright recovery in history,” according to the law firm representing the plaintiffs. A group of authors — Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson —...
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