Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to rights holders in settlement of a lawsuit regarding its training of generative AI models using copyright material without permission, raising concerns that this could increase the licensing costs enterprises pay for AI models.
The class action lawsuit concerns authors’ claims in an August 2024 lawsuit that “Anthropic downloaded known pirated versions of Plaintiffs’ works, made copies of them, and fed these pirated copies into its models.”
In papers filed to the court Friday, the plaintiffs’ attorneys described the agreement as “the largest known copyright settlement in American history.” If the judge in the case approves the settlement, the $1.5 billion fund will provide about $3,000 per copyright work at issue.
Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to rights holders in settlement of a lawsuit regarding its training of generative AI models using copyright material without permission, raising concerns that this could increase the licensing costs enterprises pay for AI models.
The class action lawsuit concerns authors’ claims in an August 2024 lawsuit that “Anthropic downloaded known pirated versions of Plaintiffs’ works, made copies of them, and fed these pirated copies into its models.”In papers filed to the court Friday, the plaintiffs’ attorneys described the agreement as “the largest known copyright settlement in American history.” If the judge in the case approves the settlement, the $1.5 billion fund will provide about $3,000 per copyright work at issue.
Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to rights holders in settlement of a lawsuit regarding its training of generative AI models using copyright material without permission, raising concerns that this could increase the licensing costs enterprises pay for AI models.
The class action lawsuit concerns authors’ claims in an August 2024 lawsuit that “Anthropic downloaded known pirated versions of Plaintiffs’ works, made copies of them, and fed these pirated copies into its models.”
In papers filed to the court Friday, the plaintiffs’ attorneys described the agreement as “the largest known copyright settlement in American history.” If the judge in the case approves the settlement, the $1.5 billion fund will provide about $3,000 per copyright work at issue.
