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Authors push back as publishers and agents make asserts on Anthropic settlement
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Some authors hoping to receive their share of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement said they received surprising emails this week, emails informing them that someone else was making a claim on their payments.
Key facts
- Under the terms of the settlement, the authors of nearly 500,000 titles will be paid $3,000 for each pirated work
- If the book is still in-print with a traditional publisher, the money will be split 50-50 between author and publisher
- Some authors hoping to receive their share of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement said they received surprising emails this week, emails informing them that someone else was making a claim
- For example, mystery and thriller author April Henry asked, “WTF is HarperCollins playing
Summary
Anthropic settled a copyright class action suit last year, after a judge ruled that training AI models on copyrighted material is legal under fair use doctrine, but pirating that material was not. Under the terms of the settlement, the authors of nearly 500,000 titles will be paid $3,000 for each pirated work. But writers have been posting on social media that publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of some payments.