Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot

A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement requiring Anthropic to pay authors approximately $3,000 per book for using pirated copies to train Claude. The ruling affirms that AI training on copyrighted books constitutes fair use, but establishes liability for wrongful acquisition of works through piracy.

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