Press Release

FAQ for Publishers: Bartz v. Anthropic

On September 25, Judge Alsup, of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, granted preliminary approval of the parties’ proposed settlement of certain infringement claims in Bartz v. Anthropic, an agreement that requires Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion dollars to the authors and publishers of nearly half a million books it downloaded from notorious pirate sites to feed AI models.

A Q&A on the proposed settlement for publishers can be found here.