KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Anthropic to pay $1.5B in author settlement

About 500,000 books covered, $3,000 per title

Judge Alsup questions agreement details in hearing

Case avoided December trial with settlement deal

A federal judge has begun reviewing a landmark class-action settlement agreement between the artificial intelligence company Anthropic and book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.

The company has agreed to pay authors and publishers $1.5 billion, amounting to about $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 books covered by the settlement.

But U.S. District Judge William Alsup has raised some questions about the details of the agreement and asked representatives of author and publisher groups to appear in court Monday to discuss.

A

See Full Page