AI BriefingUS Federal Court Grants Final Approval to Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement
Key point
The settlement in which Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to authors over a copyright infringement lawsuit has received final approval from the court.
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A US federal court in San Francisco has granted final approval to a $1.5 billion (about 2 trillion won) settlement in a class action lawsuit brought against Anthropic by a group of authors. This is expected to be recorded as the largest copyright settlement in US history.
The lawsuit was filed by authors who claimed that Anthropic had used their books without authorization to train Claude. The court had previously ruled that using books for AI training constitutes Fair Use, but determined that Anthropic's act of storing more than 7 million copyrighted works in a separate 'central library' constituted a copyright violation.
Key points:
- Settlement size: A total settlement of $1.5 billion was approved
- Court ruling: The court dismissed objections from some authors that the settlement amount was too small and finalized the settlement
- Outlook: This settlement is the first major settlement in the US related to copyright for large language model (LLM) training data, and is expected to serve as an important milestone for AI companies' data collection policies going forward
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