Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlement

Anthropic has settled a $1.5bn copyright lawsuit with thousands of authors, with Bloomsbury receiving approximately $19m for 14,087 titles. The settlement marks the first major payout in dozens of ongoing AI copyright cases and establishes a precedent for how generative AI companies must compensate creators whose work was used in training.

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