--- title: Judge signs off on Anthropic’s $1.5bn book piracy... description: A federal judge in San Francisco has granted final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors who sued the company for training its Claude AI... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/judge-signs-off-on-anthropic-s-1-5bn-book-piracy-settlement-the-biggest-in-us-copyright-history-nf8jegoye twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Judge signs off on Anthropic’s $1.5bn book piracy settlement, the biggest in US copyright history | daily.dev og:description: A federal judge in San Francisco has granted final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors who sued the company for training its Claude AI... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/judge-signs-off-on-anthropic-s-1-5bn-book-piracy-settlement-the-biggest-in-us-copyright-history-nf8jegoye og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Nf8JeGOye.png og:image:alt: Judge signs off on Anthropic’s $1.5bn book piracy settlement, the biggest in US copyright history og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Judge signs off on Anthropic’s $1.5bn book piracy settlement, the biggest in US copyright history **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A federal judge in San Francisco has granted final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors who sued the company for training its Claude AI models on pirated books sourced from shadow libraries LibGen and Pirate Library Mirror. The settlement, the largest copyright recovery in US history, pays roughly $3,000 per book across approximately half a million works. A prior ruling by Judge Alsup found that training on lawfully purchased books constitutes fair use, but that downloading from pirate libraries does not — leaving Anthropic exposed to potentially hundreds of billions in statutory damages. The judge trimmed attorneys' fees by about $86 million from what was requested. Because this is a settlement rather than a verdict, it sets no binding legal precedent. The outcome is being closely watched as similar cases against Meta, Google, and OpenAI continue. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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