A federal judge in the United States granted final approval for a $1.5 billion class-action settlement between Anthropic and a group of authors on July 21, 2026. This ruling resolves a legal battle initiated in 2024, when authors filed suit against the AI company for using their copyrighted works to train the Claude AI chatbot. The settlement is characterized as the largest copyright recovery case in history. Legal representatives for the plaintiffs are set to receive $101 million from the total settlement amount, with the remaining funds distributed to the affected authors. According to the court order, payments to the authors will be processed as promptly as possible following the final approval of the agreement.

This resolution concludes the long-standing litigation regarding the use of protected training data in large language models (AI systems trained on vast datasets to generate text).

A federal judge in the United States granted final approval for a $1.5 billion class-action settlement between Anthropic and a group of authors on July 21, 2026. This ruling resolves a legal battle initiated in 2024, when authors filed suit against the AI company for using their copyrighted works to train the Claude AI chatbot. The settlement is characterized as the largest copyright recovery case in history. Legal representatives for the plaintiffs are set to receive $101 million from the total settlement amount, with the remaining funds distributed to the affected authors. According to the court order, payments to the authors will be processed as promptly as possible following the final approval of the agreement.

This resolution concludes the long-standing litigation regarding the use of protected training data in large language models (AI systems trained on vast datasets to generate text).