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Topic: legal

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Tuesday, 7/21, 01:14 AM

A court approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors over pirated books

A federal judge has granted final approval to a $1.5 billion settlement between the AI company Anthropic and a class of authors, at roughly $3,000 per work across about 500,000 books.
The size is a landmark, but a mid-case fair-use ruling means it settles less about AI training than the headline number suggests.

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