Anthropic reaches record €1.3B AI copyright settlement

A U.S. judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion (€1.3 billion) settlement with authors over the use of pirated books to train the Claude chatbot, the largest copyright recovery in history. The deal provides about $3,000 for each of roughly 500,000 works covered, with most eligible authors having filed claims. The ruling follows a prior decision that training on lawfully acquired books can be fair use, while storing pirated copies in a central library exposed Anthropic to damages. The case is part of a broader wave of AI training lawsuits against OpenAI, Google and Meta.