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The Next Web July 21, 2026

Judge signs off on Anthropic’s $1.5bn book piracy settlement, the biggest in US copyright history

Judge signs off on Anthropic’s $1.5bn book piracy settlement, the biggest in US copyright history

A federal judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement. The settlement resolves claims that Anthropic trained its Claude models on pirated books. This is the largest copyright recovery in US history.