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

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989 points acomjean | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 19:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.395s | source
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mNovak ◴[06 Sep 25 01:53 UTC] No.45145879[source]▶
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.

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1. 93po ◴[06 Sep 25 02:18 UTC] No.45146019[source]▶
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