Anthropic Pays $1.5 Billion to Settle AI Copyright Claims Over Pirated Data

By Kirsten Korosec · TechCrunch · 2026-07-21

A federal judge in California finalized a massive settlement between Anthropic and a group of authors and publishers on Monday. TechCrunch reports that the AI laboratory will distribute payouts of $3,000 for each of the roughly 500,000 works that were allegedly scraped from pirat

A federal judge in California finalized a massive settlement between Anthropic and a group of authors and publishers on Monday. TechCrunch reports that the AI laboratory will distribute payouts of $3,000 for each of the roughly 500,000 works that were allegedly scraped from pirat