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Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement Gets Court Approval
Tech

Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement Gets Court Approval

A federal court has granted final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement over the use of copyrighted works to train its AI models. The deal closes one major legal front for the Claude maker, but the broader question of whether AI training on copyrighted material is lawful remains entirely unresolved. It is the largest copyright settlement in the AI industry to date.

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