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Judge Approves Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Settlement Over Using Pirated Books to Train Claude

·2026.07.22 04:04

Key point

Anthropic has decided to pay a settlement of $1.5 billion over a copyright infringement lawsuit.

Details

A U.S. federal court has approved a $1.5 billion (about 2 trillion won) copyright settlement related to the case in which Anthropic used pirated copies of copyrighted books to train its Claude chatbot.

Under this settlement, Anthropic will pay approximately $3,000 per book to thousands of authors and publishers. The judge ruled that this class action settlement provides substantial relief to the copyright holders who were harmed.

Key details are as follows:

  • Settlement size: A total of $1.5 billion in copyright compensation
  • Scope: Of approximately 482,000 books, over 91% have already completed rights claims
  • Legal issue: The ruling is based on the finding that while AI training itself may qualify as 'Fair Use,' the method of obtaining books through pirate websites was improper

This case is expected to stand as the first large-scale settlement among the dozens of AI copyright-related lawsuits currently underway.

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