Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
摘要
联邦法官批准 Anthropic 支付 15 亿美元和解金，涉及数千作者和 482,000 多本书，其中 91% 已被认领，每本书约 3000 美元。原告律师称这是已知最大的版权追偿案。该案由 Andrea Bartz 等作者 2024 年提起，是 AI 版权诉讼中的首例重大和解。法官此前裁定训练 AI 属于合理使用，但 Anthropic 通过盗版网站获取书籍违法。
荐读理由
你据此掌握了 AI 训练数据版权案最大和解细节：法院确认用书训练本身属合理使用，但通过盗版网站获取书籍违法，Anthropic 需按每本书约 3000 美元赔偿，这直接改变你对自家项目数据来源合规风险的判断
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Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot
Thriller novelist Andrea Bartz is photographed in her home, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Sept. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot.
District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín said in a Monday ruling that the class-action settlement provides “meaningful relief” to affected authors and publishers.
About 91% of the more than 482,000 books covered by the ruling have been claimed by authors or publishers who are now due payment.
Plaintiff attorney Justin Nelson said in a statement that the settlement was “the largest known copyright recovery in history. We look forward to making distributions to the Class as promptly as possible.”
U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued the preliminary approval in San Francisco federal court last September and has since retired. Alsup had dealt the case a mixed ruling last summer, finding that training AI chatbots on copyrighted books wasn’t illegal but that Anthropic wrongfully acquired millions of books through pirate websites.
Anthropic’s deputy general counsel, Aparna Sridhar, highlighted that ruling Friday as a landmark showing “that training AI on books is fair use under copyright law.”
“We are pleased that more than 91% of authors and publishers covered by the settlement have claimed their share of the payment, and we’re looking forward to bringing this matter to a close,” Sridhar said in a written statement.
Bestselling thriller novelist Andrea Bartz first brought the suit with two other authors in 2024. It’s the first major settlement in dozens of AI copyright lawsuits that are still working their way through courts.
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