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Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion copyright settlement to authors, publishers
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this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2026
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Wow, so uh, that’s gonna come out to fractions of a cent on the dollar, in terms of actual revenue generated from flagrant copyright violations.
It is deeply infuriating how fundamentally our society is designed to protect of people and organizations that are already blindingly wealthy.
Authors will receive next to nothing too :) Only publishers.
Just like God intended.