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

Everything talks about settlement to the 'authors'; is that meant to be shorthand for copyright holders? Because there are a lot of academic works in that library where the publisher holds exclusive copyright and the author holds nothing.

By extension, if the big publishers are getting $3000 per article, that could be a fairly significant windfall.

very unsurprisingly, new york times is going to frame this as a win for "the little guy" when in reality it's just multi-billion dollar publishers, with a long rich history of their own exploitive practices, hanging on for dear life against generative AI

Dunno if this matters but I thought the copyright always remains with the creator/author but they end up assigning the rights contractually. At least generally for books. Movies will be copyrighted by the studio.

Kinda how like patents will state the human “inventor” but Apple or whichever corp is assigned the rights.