A federal judge in San Francisco has signed off on Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors who accused the company of training its Claude models on pirated books, closing what lawyers on both sides describe as the largest copyright recovery in United States history. Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted final approval on 20 July, months after she […] This story continues at The Next Web
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July 21, 2026 at 7:24 AM
Judge signs off on Anthropic’s $1.5bn book piracy settlement, the biggest in US copyright history
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