Thus, I stand to receive about $9,000 as a result of this settlement.
I think that's fair, considering that two of those books received advances under $20K and never earned out. Also, while I'm sure that Anthropic has benefited from training its models on this dataset, that doesn't necessarily mean that those models are a lasting asset.
Infringement was supposed to imply substantial similarity. Now it is supposed to mean statistical similarity?
The suit isn't about Anthropic training its models using copyrighted materials. Courts have generally found that to be legal.
The suit is about Anthropic procuring those materials from a pirated dataset.
The infringement, in other words, happened at the time of procurement, not at the time of training.
If it had procured them from a legitimate source (e.g. licensed them from publishers) then the suit wouldn't be happening.