In 2024, multiple authors filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that Anthropic bulk-downloaded millions of pirated e-books from “shadow libraries” such as LibGen and incorporated approximately 482,000 copyrighted works into Claude’s training dataset. The court subsequently separated the concepts of “model training” and “data acquisition”: an AI learning from legally obtained books may constitute fair use, but downloading and storing works via pirated websites constitutes infringement in itself. Anthropic ultimately agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement, providing approximately $3,000 in compensation per work, and destroyed the associated pirated files.
Anthropic pledges $15 billion to settle copyright infringement case over data training
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Anthropic has agreed to a $15 billion settlement over a 2024 copyright case related to the use of pirated e-books from sites such as LibGen to train its Claude AI model. The court ruled that downloading and storing illegal copies violates copyright, even if training on legally obtained books may qualify as fair use. The settlement includes the destruction of the illegal files. Meanwhile, liquidity and crypto markets remain under regulatory scrutiny as enforcement agencies intensify global counter-terrorist financing (CFT) actions.
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