Bloomsbury Publishing, the British book publisher, announced Wednesday that it is among the companies set to receive compensation from a landmark $1.5 billion settlement reached with artificial intelligence firm Anthropic.
The settlement resolves allegations that Anthropic used copyrighted books to train its AI models without obtaining proper licensing or purchasing the content.
According to Bloomsbury, a U.S. court identified 14,087 of its titles as being covered under the terms of the settlement. Each title is set to receive approximately $3,000 in compensation, with that amount divided equally between the book’s author and the publisher.
The case originated as a class-action lawsuit filed by authors who claimed Anthropic used their written works without authorization to develop its Claude AI chatbot. A federal judge formally approved the settlement on Monday.
Legal experts are calling this the largest copyright-related financial settlement ever recorded in U.S. history.
Bloomsbury noted that payments from the settlement are expected to be distributed across multiple installments, with the first payments estimated to arrive during the second half of the company’s current financial year.
