United States of America: Anthropic reached a USD 1.5 billion settlement in a class action lawsuit addressing allegations that it used copyrighted books to train its AI model (Bartz et al. v. Anthropic PBC) (No. C 24-05417 WHA)
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Anthropic reached a USD 1.5 billion settlement in a class action lawsuit addressing allegations that it used copyrighted books to train its AI model (Bartz et al. v. Anthropic PBC) (No. C 24-05417 WHA)
On 5 September 2025, Anthropic reached a USD 1.5 billion settlement in the class action lawsuit alleging that it downloaded books from the databases Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror to train its large language models. As part of the settlem…
Scope
Policy Area
Intellectual property
Policy Instrument
Copyright protection regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
ML and AI development
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
judiciary
Government Body
court