Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors

If you are an author here are a couple of relevant links:

You can search LibGen by author to see if your work is included. I believe this would make you a member of the class: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/searc...

If you are a member of the class (or think you are) you can submit your contact information to the plaintiff's attorneys here: https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/

Thank you for posting this!

I suspected my work was in the dataset and it looks like it is! I reached out via the form.

Good luck! Hope you get a payout!

It’s pretty incredible that the vast majority of authors will make more money for their books from this settlement that they ever have from selling their books.

God bless capitalistic America.

Wild - I searched my name out of curiosity and my PhD research papers turned up. Worth submitting my contact details I guess

That may depend on whether there is copyright on that work.

wow, I found 8 of my books!

8 works x $3k/work is not a bad payout!

Thank you! I hadn't even thought that I could be affected, but I have written some programming books, and some of them show up on libgen. I've submitted my contact info, maybe something will come out of this...

Here's the data from 2018.

https://authorsguild.org/news/six-takeaways-from-the-authors...

Median income was $3100 which is greater than the $3000 average award from the Anthropic settlement.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5529404/anthropic-settl...

But yes, one set of data is from 7-8 years ago, the other figure is from a few weeks ago. And median and average don't mean the same thing. And it's unclear how the population from the Author's Guild survey maps to the plaintiff class from the Anthropic settlement.

But it seems we're in the same ballpark.