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Law firm's recruitment of authors to opt out of Anthropic deal blasted by US judge

By Mike Swift ( November 26, 2025, 01:04 GMT | Insight) -- In an extraordinary four-hour evidentiary hearing in San Francisco, a federal judge blasted ClaimsHero, an Arizona law firm recruiting authors to opt out of Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement over its use of copyrighted books to train its AI, saying he's concerned the firm is poised to or has already committed “extortion” and “fraud.”An Arizona law firm recruiting authors to opt-out of Anthropic’s proposed $1.5 billion copyright settlement “committed a fraud” on class members and appears interested in “extortion” of the AI giant, a fired-up federal judge told the firm’s lawyers and CEO Tuesday. ...

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