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Bloomsbury to Receive Payout from $1.5B Anthropic AI Copyright Settlement
Bloomsbury Publishing (LON:BLPU) announced Tuesday that it will receive compensation from a $1.5 billion settlement with artificial intelligence company Anthropic. The settlement resolves a class-action lawsuit alleging the AI firm used copyrighted books without authorization to train its large language models.
Settlement Details
According to the British publisher, a U.S. court identified 14,087 of its titles as being covered by the settlement. The proposed compensation is approximately $3,000 per title.
Bloomsbury stated the proceeds would be divided equally between the publisher and its authors. Based on these figures, this arrangement implies a potential gross payment of approximately $21.1 million to Bloomsbury, with an equivalent amount distributed among the affected authors.
AdLegal and Industry Context
The case stems from a class-action lawsuit brought by authors against Anthropic. The authors alleged that their books were used without permission to train the company's Claude AI chatbot, a competitor to models like OpenAI's ChatGPT.
A U.S. federal judge approved the class-action lawsuit on Monday, paving the way for the settlement. This legal action is one of several high-profile cases where content creators and rights holders are challenging the data-sourcing practices of AI developers, a key issue shaping the future regulation and economics of generative AI.
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