Anthropic will pay a record-breaking $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit piracy lawsuit brought by authors. The settlement is the largest-ever payout for a copyright case in the United States.
The AI company behind the Claude chatbot reached data-i13n=”elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1″ class=”link ” href=”https://www.engadget.com/ai/anthropic-reaches-a-settlement-over-authors-class-action-piracy-lawsuit-210338494.html” data-ylk=”slk:a settlement;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”>a settlement in the case last week, but terms of the agreement weren’t disclosed at the time. Now, The New York Times data-i13n=”elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1″ class=”link ” href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/anthropic-settlement-copyright-ai.html” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:reports;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”> that the 500,000 authors involved in the case will get $3,000 per work.
The settlement is “is the first of its kind in the AI era,” Justin…
