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pier25 on Sept 5, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit wi...

Only 500,000 copyrighted works?

I was under the impression they had downloaded millions of books.

KittenInABox on Sept 6, 2025 [–]

Individual authors had to join the class action lawsuit, sadly. They were not all automatically registered for each violation.

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