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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: 0s | 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. Scoundreller ◴[06 Sep 25 21:18 UTC] No.45152930[source]▶
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.