News Summary

• Around half a million writers will be eligible for a payday of at least $3,000.
• This landmark settlement marks the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright law.
• But writers aren’t getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI.
• This is just a costly slap on the wrist for Anthropic, a company that just raised another $13 billion, because it illegally downloaded books instead of buying them.
• In June, federal judge William Alsup sided with Anthropic and ruled that it is, indeed, legal to train AI on copyrighted material.