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Judge approves Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement
The Verge AI Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge
A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion class-action settlement between Anthropic and authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books.
Why it matters
This landmark agreement sets a major financial precedent for how AI companies compensate creators when training models on copyrighted works.
Latest brief · Jul 21, 2026