Authors say publishers want a cut of Anthropic’s payout, the NYT reports

Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5bn to the authors whose books it pirated. The money is now being counted out. Some of those authors are discovering that a share of it goes to their own publishers.

The New York Times reported on Friday that authors and publishers have filed competing claims over the same titles. The settlement administrator has begun telling both sides they disagree.

The class action covers more than 482,000 books. It pays up to $3,000 for each one a judge found Anthropic had downloaded illegally and stored while building Claude. A judge in the Northern District of California approved it in July. At the top rate, the full list of titles comes to roughly $1.45bn. Authors filed the case in 2024.

The default split is 50/50, and not everyone gets it

Authors do not keep the whole $3,000. They split it with the publishers they granted rights...

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