Anthropic's $1.5 billion US copyright settlement wins final approval
By Amy Miller ( July 20, 2026, 23:40 GMT | Insight) -- Anthropic’s $1.5 billion class action settlement with book authors whose works were downloaded from “shadow” libraries to train its chatbot Claude was granted final approval Monday after US Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín overruled objections to the deal. "The court finds that the proposed settlement is fair, free of collusion, and consistent with plaintiffs’ fiduciary obligations to the class," she said. Anthropic’s $1.5 billion class action settlement with book authors whose works were downloaded from “shadow” libraries to train its chatbot Claude was granted final approval Monday after a US judge overruled objections to the deal....
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