IP litigation partner Matt Rizzolo, in a California Continuing Education at the Bar (CEB) article, discussed the implications of a federal judge in the Northen District of California issuing preliminary approval of a $1.5 billion copyright infringement settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege that nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to train chatbots. The first-of-its-kind settlement would pay authors and publishers about $3,000 for each of the books covered by the agreement and does not apply to future works.
In the Bartz v. Anthropic PBC case, Matt said that Anthropic;s settlement figure might not influence others taking their AI copyright case to trial, since under the Copyright Act, statutory damages in certain instances allow for much larger awards.
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