{"slug": "judge-approves-1-5-billion-anthropic-settlement-over-pirated-books-used-to-train", "title": "Judge Approves $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement Over Pirated Books Used To Train Claude", "summary": "A federal judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement over pirated books used to train its Claude chatbot, with authors and publishers receiving about $3,000 per book. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin ruled the class-action settlement provides meaningful relief, and 91% of the more than 482,000 covered books have been claimed. Plaintiff attorney Justin Nelson called it the largest known copyright recovery in history.", "body_md": "A federal judge has approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement over pirated books used to train its Claude chatbot, with authors and publishers set to receive about $3,000 per book. The case produced a mixed ruling for the AI industry: training on copyrighted books was found not to be illegal, but Anthropic's use of pirated copies from shadow libraries was. The Associated Press reports: District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin said in a Monday ruling that the class-action settlement provides \"meaningful relief\" to affected authors and publishers. About 91% of the more than 482,000 books covered by the ruling have been claimed by authors or publishers who are now due payment. Plaintiff attorney Justin Nelson said in a statement that the settlement was \"the largest known copyright recovery in history. We look forward to making distributions to the Class as promptly as possible.\"[Read more of this story](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/07/21/1744202/judge-approves-15-billion-anthropic-settlement-over-pirated-books-used-to-train-claude?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed) at Slashdot.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/judge-approves-1-5-billion-anthropic-settlement-over-pirated-books-used-to-train", "canonical_source": "https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/07/21/1744202/judge-approves-15-billion-anthropic-settlement-over-pirated-books-used-to-train-claude?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed", "published_at": "2026-07-21 18:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-21 22:52:30.626624+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy", "ai-ethics", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Claude", "Araceli Martinez-Olguin", "Justin Nelson", "Associated Press"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/judge-approves-1-5-billion-anthropic-settlement-over-pirated-books-used-to-train", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/judge-approves-1-5-billion-anthropic-settlement-over-pirated-books-used-to-train.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/judge-approves-1-5-billion-anthropic-settlement-over-pirated-books-used-to-train.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/judge-approves-1-5-billion-anthropic-settlement-over-pirated-books-used-to-train.jsonld"}}