Judge Approves a $1.5B Anthropic Settlement Over Books Used to Train Claude
The case began when bestselling novelist Andrea Bartz and two other authors filed the suit in 2024.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 22, 2026 (AP) — A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot.
District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín said in a Monday ruling that the class-action settlement provides “meaningful relief” to affected authors and publishers.
