Bloomsbury among publishers in line for payout from Anthropic’s $1.5bn copyright settlement
Bloomsbury, the London publisher best known for the Harry Potter series, has confirmed it will collect a share of Anthropic’s $1.5bn settlement with authors, the largest copyright payout in US history.
The company told the stock market this week that 14,087 of its titles sit on the list of works covered by the deal, which a federal judge signed off on on Monday.
The money stems from Bartz v. Anthropic, the class action a group of writers brought after the AI firm was found to have downloaded millions of pirated books to train its Claude models.
The case had already produced a rare fairness hearing before Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted final approval, inheriting the matter from Judge William Alsup, who has since retired.
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