Authors sued Anthropic over books used to train its Claude models. The court held that training on lawfully acquired books was fair use but let claims over a pirated library go forward, and the class settled for $1.5 billion covering about 500,000 works. The judge gave final approval on 20 July 2026.
Sets a per-work benchmark. Most IP policies are not sized or written for training-data claims.
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