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Anthropic settles copyright lawsuit with book authors
Proposed class settlement to be finalized next week
Judge ruled AI training on books was fair use
Authors claimed Anthropic profited from pirated works
A group of book authors has reached a settlement agreement with artificial intelligence company Anthropic after suing the chatbot maker for copyright infringement .
Both sides of the case have “negotiated a proposed class settlement,” according to a federal appeals court filing Tuesday that said the terms will be finalized next week.
Anthropic declined comment Tuesday. A lawyer for the authors, Justin Nelson, said the “historic settlement will benefit all class members.”
In a major test case for the AI industry, a federal judge ruled in June that Anthropic