US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit

A US federal judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of a class action copyright lawsuit brought by authors alleging the company used their books without permission to train Claude, the largest known copyright settlement in US history. The ruling affirms that AI training on copyrighted material can constitute fair use, but Anthropic must compensate for storing pirated books in a central library.

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