A federal judge granted final approval Monday to Anthropic's £1.17 billion ($1.5 billion) settlement with authors over pirated books used to train its Claude AI chatbot, the largest copyright settlement in US history.
The approval comes even as a separate 2025 ruling that training on legally acquired books is fair use remains untouched. US District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín signed the order in San Francisco, confirming the deal resolves claims tied to more than 482,000 pirated works, with roughly 91 per cent of eligible authors and publishers, over 440,000 books, having already filed claims.
