# Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge

> A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic’s $1. 5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters.

- **Source:** [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/968724/anthropic-authors-settlement-ai-copyright-approved?utm_source=gearopen.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=feed&utm_content=6a5fbb984c3dea13d3b887df)
- **Published:** 2026-07-21
- **Category:** AI & Bots
- **Tags:** #anthropic #ai
- **Canonical:** http://localhost:4321/a/6a5fbb984c3dea13d3b887df

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