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Anthropic's $1.5B piracy settlement with book authors is a record loss that hands AI labs their biggest legal win
Anthropic 因盗版书籍支付 15 亿美元和解金，创下集体诉讼版权赔偿纪录
Anthropic's $1.5B piracy settlement with book authors is a record loss that hands AI labs their biggest legal win
The DecoderAnthropic has to pay $1.5 billion to book authors, the largest copyright settlement in class action history. But the payout is for downloading roughly 482,460 works from piracy databases, not for AI training itself. Judge Alsup had previously ruled that AI training on legally obtained books is "transformative" and falls under fair use. The settlement is actually a win for AI labs.
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Context
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