Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement

Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments.

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  1. Anthropic's Landmark $1.5 Billion Settlement: Anthropic agreed to a historic $1.5 billion settlement in August 2025, resolving a class-action lawsuit (Bartz v. Anthropic) brought by authors who alleged their pirated books were used to train the Claude AI models, making it one of the largest copyright settlements in US history.
  2. Publishers' Lawsuit Against Google's Gemini AI: Major publishers, including Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier, along with author Scott Turow, filed a lawsuit against Google in July 2026, alleging the company illegally used millions of copyrighted books to train its Gemini AI models.
  3. Getty Images' UK Lawsuit Against Stability AI: In November 2025, the UK High Court largely rejected Getty Images' copyright infringement claims against Stability AI, ruling that Stable Diffusion models do not store or reproduce relevant copyrighted works and are not 'infringing copies' for secondary infringement purposes.

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