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AI Companies Are Buying Millions of Books, Chopping Off Their Spines, and Destroying Them to Train Chatbots

Court records reveal Anthropic's Project Panama: millions of books were bought, cut apart, and scanned to train AI models, amid copyright disputes.

International Business Times UK · Sep 21

Inside Project Panama, Anthropic's Secret Effort To Scan and Shred the World's Books

Anthropic secretly scanned and destroyed millions of books for AI training, raising legal and ethical questions. The operation, Project Panama, involved both piracy and legal purchases, impacting book markets.

International Business Times UK · Jul 28

Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Book Piracy Settlement Gets Final Approval, Even as Training AI on Legally Bought Books Stays Fair Use

A federal judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement over pirated books used to train its AI, marking the largest copyright settlement in US history and setting a legal precedent.

International Business Times UK · Jul 23

Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Settlement Over AI Training On Pirated Books Sets Precedent As Lawsuits Against OpenAI, Meta Loom

A federal judge in California has given preliminary approval to Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)-backed Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors who accused the AI company of using millions of pirated books to train its Claude chatbot.

Benzinga · Sep 26, 2025

Judge Endorses Anthropic's $1.5 Bn Copyright Settlement

A US judge on Thursday endorsed Anthropic's deal to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit over amassing a library of pirated books to train its artificial intelligence.

International Business Times · Sep 25, 2025

Judge approves $1.5 billion copyright settlement between AI company Anthropic and authors

A federal judge on Thursday approved a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to train chatbots

The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2025

Judge rules Trump administration illegally fired thousands of probationary workers

A judge has ruled that the Trump administration's central human resources office acted illegally when it directed the mass firings of thousands of probationary workers

The Independent UK · Sep 15, 2025

An AI startup has agreed to a $2.2 billion copyright settlement. But will Australian writers benefit?

Anthropic, an AI startup founded in 2021, has reached a groundbreaking US$1.5 billion settlement (AU$2.28 billion) in a class-action copyright lawsuit. The case was initiated in 2024 by novelist Andrea Bartz and non-fiction writers Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson.

The Conversation · Sep 10, 2025

Judge skewers $1.5B Anthropic settlement with authors in pirated books case over AI training

A federal judge on Monday skewered a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half million books had been illegally pirated to train chatbots, raising the specter that the case could still end up going to trial

The Independent UK · Sep 9, 2025

Anthropic reaches $1.5 Billion settlement with authors in landmark copyright case

Anthropic’s deal with authors may accelerate a shift toward licensing copyrighted material needed to train AI models, legal experts say

Fortune · Sep 5, 2025