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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: 0.202s | source
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jbeard4 ◴[06 Sep 25 00:28 UTC] No.45145339[source]▶
"$3,000 per work" seems like an incredibly good deal to license a book.
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1. mcintyre1994 ◴[06 Sep 25 14:02 UTC] No.45149335[source]▶
If the case is about piracy rather than use (which is I think the case?), wouldn’t the comparison be to buying all the books? $3000 each would be a pretty bad deal for that.