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Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion copyright settlement to authors, publishers (www.courthousenews.com)
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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 116 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago

Fifty-four known class members and over 500,000 potential class members will each receive an estimated $3,100 per work, from approximately 482,000 works.

Still too low IMO but a big upgrade

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