Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge
Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge
法官批准 Anthropic 15 亿美元图书盗版和解协议
A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic’s $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an order on Monday, Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín writes that the settlement will provide “meaningful relief,” offering authors around $3,000 for each book allegedly pirated by Anthropic.
据路透社早前报道，一位联邦法官已批准 Anthropic 与多位作者达成的 15 亿美元集体诉讼和解协议。这些作者此前指控该公司利用受版权保护的图书训练其人工智能模型。法官 Araceli Martínez-Olguín 在周一的一项裁决中写道，该和解协议将提供“有意义的补偿”，为每本被指控遭 Anthropic 盗版的图书向作者提供约 3,000 美元的赔偿。
The $1.5 billion settlement is the “largest known copyright recovery in history,” according to the law firm representing the plaintiffs. A group of authors — Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson — first filed a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic in 2024. While the now-retired Judge William Alsup granted Anthropic a partial victory last year, he approved a separate class action lawsuit claiming the company engaged in the “Napster-style downloading of millions of works.” Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement in September 2025, to which Judge Alsup later granted preliminary approval.
据代表原告的律师事务所称，这笔 15 亿美元的和解金是“历史上已知金额最大的版权赔偿”。2024 年，Andrea Bartz、Charles Graeber 和 Kirk Wallace Johnson 等作者首次对 Anthropic 提起版权诉讼。尽管现已退休的法官 William Alsup 去年曾判决 Anthropic 获得部分胜诉，但他随后批准了另一项集体诉讼，指控该公司进行了“类似 Napster 风格的数百万部作品下载”。Anthropic 于 2025 年 9 月同意支付 15 亿美元达成和解，法官 Alsup 随后给予了初步批准。
“We are pleased that more than 91% of authors and publishers covered by the settlement have claimed their share of the payment,” Anthropic general counsel Aparna Sridhar tells Reuters. “We’re looking forward to bringing this matter to a close.” Anthropic is still facing copyright lawsuits from Chicken Soup for the Soul and several other authors who argue that $3,000 per book isn’t enough.
Anthropic 总法律顾问 Aparna Sridhar 对路透社表示：“我们很高兴看到超过 91% 的和解协议涵盖范围内的作者和出版商已经领取了他们的赔偿份额。我们期待着此事能圆满结束。”目前，Anthropic 仍面临来自《心灵鸡汤》（Chicken Soup for the Soul）及其他几位作者的版权诉讼，他们认为每本书 3,000 美元的赔偿金额不足。