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UPDATED Jul 21, 2026 at 8:00 PM ET
Jul 20, 2026 at 9:05 PM ET
Judge approves Anthropic $1.5B book piracy settlement
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A federal judge signed off on Anthropic’s $1.5 billion class action settlement over alleged AI training on copyrighted books.
WHO: Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín
WHAT: Signed off on Anthropic’s $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors alleging AI training on copyrighted books.
WHEN: Jul 21, 2026 at 12:53 PM ET
WHERE: USA
WHY: The settlement was approved by the judge as a class action resolution for authors’ claims about copyrighted-book training.
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