Potentially is the first major payment for Creative, used to train the AI system, Anthropic has reached an agreement to pay for the writers “at least” $ 1.5 billion, plus interest to deal with its square-carriage trial. The amount breaks for small payments for expecting approximately $ 3,000 per book or work. The lawyers of the plaintiff said that it is “believed that American copyright is the largest publicly reported recovery in the history of litigation.”
“This result is not less than notable,” Legitimize States.
The agreement is subject to the approval of the court, and the hearing will be held on 8 September. According to a press release, the final amount may be high, in which about 500,000 works will be paid, but if the total is total, anthropic per task will pay an additional $ 3,000, and it all depends on the number of claims presented. As part of the disposal, anthropic must also destroy this downloaded original files and any copies.
The release stated, “Settlement only issues claims based on previous acts – it does not license or allows anthropic for future AI training and does not release any claims arising after August 25, 2025.”
The historical decision is part of a one -year saga. In August 2024, three writers – Andrea Bartz, Charles Graber, and Kirkas Johnson – Solemn The anthropic “stole hundreds of thousands of copyright books and created a multibillion-dollar business.” In summer, a federal judge handed over a small win to Anthropic, deciding that the company was within its legal rights to train its AI model on books legally purchased. But the judge also said that anthropic would have to face a separate test for alleged use of pirated books. In July, a federal judge from California ruled that the author may bring a class action lawsuit representing all American writers, whose work was reportedly come from libraries of pirated books downloaded by Anthropic. And at the end of the last month, Anthropic stated that it had resolved the class action lawsuit – but we did not know the terms so far.
“In June, the district court issued a historic decision on the AI Development and Copyright Act, found that anthropic’s approach to train the AI model of athropic appropriately uses anthropic approach to train the AI model of athropic,” said the Deputy General Council of Anthropic said. Ruckus In a statement. “Today’s settlement, if approved, will solve the claims of the remaining heritage of the plaintiff. We are committed to developing safe AI systems that help people and organizations expand their abilities, pursue scientific discovery and solve complex problems.”
This disposal is particularly notable during the increasing cases against AI companies against AI companies on media outlets, platforms, creatives and copyright violations from companies – and, at the same time, the growing number of partnership with similar AI companies with companies and media outlets is set to provide data to train AI system.
This is not the only legal action anthropic that has been faced in recent years. In this summer, Redit filed a case against anthropic, claiming that the AI company’s bots had accessed Redit more than 100,000 times since July 2024, Anthropic said that he had blocked them from doing so. And in 2023, Universal Music sued anthropic on “systematic and widespread violations of its copyright songs”.
For this case, writers and rightsholders can travel Tehopropiccopyrightsttlement.comThe release states, a website that “gives possible class members to provide contact information to the class lawyer.”
“In the coming weeks, and if the court has approved the disposal, the website will provide a complete and easy -to -find list of all the tasks covered by disposal and information about their options and rights about the township,” the release said.
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