**The AI company Anthropic seems to be trying to avoid higher penalties after a copyright lawsuit and is offering a settlement. Authors of the affected works should be compensated.**
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## The details
* The AI company Anthropic wants to pay book authors $1.5 billion in compensation for the unauthorized use of their works. That amounts to about $3,000 per work. Around 500,000 books were used to train the chatbot Claude.
* Anthropic wants to avoid a lawsuit with the settlement, which could lead to much higher penalties. Up to $150,000 could be due per affected work.
* The judge acknowledges the possibility of "Fair Use" in AI training but rejects it for downloads from pirated websites. It was also found that Anthropic knew the sources were illegal.
* Claude is one of the most successful AI chatbots alongside OpenAI's ChatGPT. The case highlights the pressure on the AI industry to solve copyright problems.
**Our thoughts**
AI companies like Anthropic or OpenAI are often accused of using copyrighted data to train their AI models. The settlement shows that using copyrighted data can be expensive.
**More information:** 🔗 [npr](https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5529404/anthropic-settlement-authors-copyright-ai){:target="_blank" rel="noopener"}
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