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Publishers and agents are claiming money from the Anthropic copyright settlement that may not be theirs
Authors who expected a $3,000 payout per pirated book are finding publishers claiming rights they lost years ago, and literary agents grabbing percentages they were never owed.
Microsoft Says Copilot Almost Never Copies News Articles Word for Word. Publishers Aren't Convinced.
New court filings show Microsoft analysed 8.2 million chat logs to prove its AI assistant rarely reproduces copyrighted text. The legal battle with The New York Times and book authors is far from over.
The Trump Administration Just Took OpenAI's Side in the New York Times Copyright Case
Federal lawyers filed court papers arguing that training AI on news articles counts as fair use. The move could shape who pays, and who profits, if AI keeps feeding on published work.
Who owns the words that trained AI? Courts are still figuring it out
A $1.5 billion ruling against Anthropic and a string of unresolved lawsuits show just how far copyright law is from catching up with the technology reshaping publishing.
A federal judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors and publishers
The payout works out to $3,000 per book across roughly 500,000 works. But the ruling that made AI training on copyrighted text legal still stands, and many authors are not celebrating.