{"id":20003,"date":"2025-09-06T07:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/06\/ai-startup-anthropic-agrees-to-pay-1-5bn-to-settle-book-piracy-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T07:38:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:38:03","slug":"ai-startup-anthropic-agrees-to-pay-1-5bn-to-settle-book-piracy-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/06\/ai-startup-anthropic-agrees-to-pay-1-5bn-to-settle-book-piracy-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Settlement could be pivotal after authors claimed company took pirated copies of their work to train chatbots<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">The artificial intelligence<\/a> company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5bn to settle a class-action lawsuit by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/aug\/20\/anthropic-ai-lawsuit-author\">book authors<\/a> who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.<\/p>\n<p>The landmark settlement, if approved by a judge as soon as Monday, could mark a turning point in legal battles between AI companies and the writers, visual artists and other creative professionals who accuse them of copyright infringement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/05\/anthropic-settlement-ai-book-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4f856014630ccb7cfc814f6fb35cbca8945ab5de\/412_0_6829_5464\/master\/6829.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=23df50b40c8d85d13ba1b5915863dc9f\" title=\"AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit\" \/>Settlement could be pivotal after authors claimed company took pirated copies of their work to train chatbots<br \/>\nThe artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5bn to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.<br \/>\nThe landmark settlement, if approved by a judge as soon as Monday, could mark a turning point in legal battles between AI companies and the writers, visual artists and other creative professionals who accuse them of copyright infringement. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Settlement could be pivotal after authors claimed company took pirated copies of their work to train chatbots The artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5bn to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot. The landmark settlement, if approved by &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/06\/ai-startup-anthropic-agrees-to-pay-1-5bn-to-settle-book-piracy-lawsuit\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}