{"id":1014,"date":"2025-08-26T23:44:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2025-08-28T16:18:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:18:39","slug":"book-authors-settle-copyright-lawsuit-with-ai-company-anthropic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/book-authors-settle-copyright-lawsuit-with-ai-company-anthropic\/","title":{"rendered":"Book authors settle copyright lawsuit with AI company Anthropic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 A group of book authors has reached a settlement agreement with artificial intelligence company Anthropic after suing the chatbot maker for copyright infringement.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related left\">\n<h2 class=\"widget-title\" data-curated-ids=\"\" data-relation-type=\"automatic-primary-section\">Related Articles<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/08\/28\/west-side-books-denver-highland\/\" title=\"West Side Books, a Denver Highland mainstay, faces uncertain new chapter\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tWest Side Books, a Denver Highland mainstay, faces uncertain new chapter\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/08\/28\/jbs-falsify-safety-training-lawsuit\/\" title=\"Meat processor JBS pushed Greeley instructors to falsify safety trainings, whistleblower says\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tMeat processor JBS pushed Greeley instructors to falsify safety trainings, whistleblower says\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/08\/28\/wings-over-the-rockies-ceo-marcus-harshaw-out\/\" title=\"Wings Over the Rockies CEO out after eight months\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tWings Over the Rockies CEO out after eight months\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/08\/28\/arvada-candelas-apartments-townhomes\/\" title=\"Atlanta developer to build 380 new residences in Arvada\u2019s Candelas community\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tAtlanta developer to build 380 new residences in Arvada\u2019s Candelas community\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/08\/27\/echostar-att-wireless-spectrum-sale\/\" title=\"Englewood-based EchoStar gives up wireless network independence for enough cash to survive\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tEnglewood-based EchoStar gives up wireless network independence for enough cash to survive\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Both sides of the case have \u201cnegotiated a proposed class settlement,\u201d according to a federal appeals court filing Tuesday that said the terms will be finalized next week.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic declined comment Tuesday. A lawyer for the authors, Justin Nelson, said the \u201chistoric settlement will benefit all class members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a major test case for the AI industry, a federal judge ruled in June that Anthropic didn\u2019t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books.<\/p>\n<p>But the company was still on the hook and was scheduled go to trial over how it acquired those books by downloading them from online \u201cshadow libraries\u201d of pirated copies.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco said in his June ruling that the AI system\u2019s distilling from thousands of written works to be able to produce its own passages of text qualified as \u201cfair use\u201d under U.S. copyright law because it was \u201cquintessentially transformative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike any reader aspiring to be a writer, Anthropic\u2019s (AI large language models) trained upon works not to race ahead and replicate or supplant them \u2014 but to turn a hard corner and create something different,\u201d Alsup wrote.<\/p>\n<p>A trio of writers \u2014 Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson \u2014 alleged in their lawsuit last year that Anthropic\u2019s practices amounted to \u201clarge-scale theft,\u201d and that the San Francisco-based company \u201cseeks to profit from strip-mining the human expression and ingenuity behind each one of those works.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 A group of book authors has reached a settlement agreement with artificial intelligence company Anthropic after suing the chatbot maker for copyright infringement. 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