Authors' copyright class action against Anthropic in which Judge Alsup held AI training fair use but pirated books not, ending in a $1.5 billion settlement.
Anthropic's settlement list includes at least 22 books by 15 Korean authors, three by Han Kang, among 482,460 eligible works. The count is koreajoongangdaily.com's, and at $3,000 a work the 22 come to $66,000 if every one is claimed.
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Sony and Warner want evidence about which founder approved which corpus, and that request is aimed at internal records rather than model weights. The complaint is effectively a test case for any lab whose pipeline cannot answer that question per corpus.
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The publishers want $150,000 for every alleged infringement and say Claude will recite lyrics verbatim, which moves output filtering into the column of legal controls rather than polish for anyone shipping a text feature.
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Justice's September 1 filing in the consolidated OpenAI MDL calls model training extraordinarily transformative. It binds no judge, which is precisely why its work shows up in the price of a licence rather than in the law.
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Sony Music and Warner Chappell want up to $150,000 for each of thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of songs, and they argue in the filing that the $1.5bn Anthropic already paid was too small to deter anyone valued at $2 trillion.
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