法官批准Anthropic就盗版书籍训练Claude一案达成15亿美元和解协议

法官批准Anthropic就利用盗版书籍训练Claude一案达成15亿美元和解协议

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美国联邦法官批准Anthropic支付15亿美元，和解其使用盗版书籍训练Claude聊天机器人的集体诉讼。约91%的48.2万本涉案书籍已被作者或出版商认领，每本书赔偿约3000美元。原告律师称这是“历史上已知最大的版权追偿”，Anthropic则强调法院此前已裁定AI训练书籍属于合理使用。

推荐理由

这是 AI 训练数据版权案中第一个重大和解，每个作者赔三千，看似不多但总额达 15 亿，给仍在诉讼中的 OpenAI、Meta 等案打了个样，做版权内容的该认真看看。

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Thriller novelist Andrea Bartz is photographed in her home, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Sept. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot.

District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín said in a Monday ruling that the class-action settlement provides “meaningful relief” to affected authors and publishers.

About 91% of the more than 482,000 books covered by the ruling have been claimed by authors or publishers who are now due payment.

Plaintiff attorney Justin Nelson said in a statement that the settlement was “the largest known copyright recovery in history. We look forward to making distributions to the Class as promptly as possible.”

U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued the preliminary approval in San Francisco federal court last September and has since retired. Alsup had dealt the case a mixed ruling last summer, finding that training AI chatbots on copyrighted books wasn’t illegal but that Anthropic wrongfully acquired millions of books through pirate websites.

Anthropic’s deputy general counsel, Aparna Sridhar, highlighted that ruling Friday as a landmark showing “that training AI on books is fair use under copyright law.”

“We are pleased that more than 91% of authors and publishers covered by the settlement have claimed their share of the payment, and we’re looking forward to bringing this matter to a close,” Sridhar said in a written statement.