UK's Bloomsbury among beneficiaries of $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright lawsuit settlement

Britain's Bloomsbury Publishing confirmed on Tuesday it was among the beneficiaries of a landmark $1.5 billion settlement that resolves claims artificial intelligence company Anthropic used ‌copyrighted ⁠books ⁠to train its AI models without purchasing the content.

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Bloomsbury said a U.S. court identified 14,087 of its titles covered by the ⁠settlement, with ‌proposed compensation of about $3,000 per title, split equally ⁠between the author and publisher. The settlement stems from a class-action lawsuit, approved by a federal judge on Monday, which was brought by authors who alleged Anthropic used their books ‌without permission to train its Claude AI chatbot.


The ​settlement ​is the ⁠largest known copyright payout in U.S. history. The British company said settlement ​proceeds would be spread over several payments estimated to begin in the second half of the financial year.