According to TechCrunch, authors receiving payments from Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement reported receiving emails this week indicating that publishers and literary agents were claiming shares of their individual payments. Under settlement terms finalized in July, authors of nearly 500,000 titles receive $3,000 per pirated work; payments split 50-50 with publishers for in-print books and go entirely to authors for self-published works or titles reverted to authors. Writers have posted on social media that some publishers appear to claim disproportionate shares of payments.
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