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Judge puts Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement on hold
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TL;DR
- A federal judge has put Anthropic's $1.5 billion book piracy settlement on hold.
- Judge William Alsup is concerned about the terms of the settlement and the claims process.
- Anthropic faced a class action lawsuit for allegedly training AI models on copyrighted books.
- The settlement would provide authors around $3,000 for each covered book.
- Judge Alsup wants a definitive number of books covered by the settlement.
- The judge will revisit the settlement in a hearing on September 25th.