The settlement in the copyright lawsuit against Anthropic provides authors of books they trained their AI on with compensation.
The amount of compensation ultimately depends on the number of people who file a claim, but estimates are that claimants will receive a little under $3000 per book.
The total settlement fund is $1.5 billion.
You can check whether you are eligible to submit a claim by searching this database of books. You can submit a claim here.
Claims must be submitted by March 23rd, 2026.
Does anyone have any insight how a book got labeled “education” or “non-education”? I have one book in each category according to the database, but they both seem like non-education books to me. Is there a way to challenge that classification? There are different payout structures associated with each classification, and I’d love some pointers here if anyone’s got any.
Fine, but it’s going to cost them more than 3k for the movie rights.
This company is valued at over $150billion. I don’t know how to evaluate this sort of thing, but it sounds like they made out like bandits. Does this make it harder/easier for companies to do this in the future, specifically, did that just set a price for something that didn’t have a price before?
Of course they “made out like bandits”. That is what companies do when they are “responsible” to their investors – haven’t you taught business ethics before.
Are non-U.S. citizens also eligible to submit a claim? One of my books is on the list but I am not a U.S. citizen (nor living in the U.S.)
I assume one can make claims for articles, as well as books?
If so, how does one do this? Same site?
Can anyone comment on how onerous the process is?
Thanks in advance.