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Authors have mixed feelings about the $1.5B Anthropic copyright infringement ruling

By Chloe VeltmanJuly 27, 2026·Source: NPR·3 views

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AI company Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion dollars to hundreds of thousands of authors in a landmark copyright infringement settlement. But some authors have mixed feelings about the outcome.

Some say the $3,100 per title payout is small compensation for what they view as big, ongoing threats from the makers of generative AI models.

(Image credit: RICCARDO MILANI/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images)

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