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Month: September 2025

BREAKING: OpenAI on losing track in German copyright case brought by music rights collecting society over song lyrics; injunction looms large

September 29, 2025

A German copyright injunction against OpenAI looms large based on what a judge said at the outset of today’s trial.
“Fair settlement”: federal judge allows book authors’ $1.5B ($3K/book) agreement with Claude AI maker Anthropic to be implemented

September 25, 2025

Judge William H. Alsup of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California is now in favor of the largest-ever copyright class-action settlement.
‘AI companies, you are not above the law’: Anthropic’s $1.5B proposed book author copyright settlement receives industry-wide support

September 23, 2025

A slew of declarations have been filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, urging the court to accept a proposed motion for settlement between Anthropic and a class of authors worth over $1.5 billion.
$1.5B Anthropic-book author settlement: approval postponed, should never be taken for granted, but trial still appears unlikely

September 9, 2025

Approval of the record $1.5B AI copyright settlement between book authors and Anthropic has been postponed. and still appears very likely.
Anthropic’s record $1.5B+ copyright settlement is a great deal for book authors that doesn’t sound the death knells on Generative AI

September 6, 2025

Book authors get $3,000 for each copyright work that Anthropic had obtained illegally, a very good deal for writers, but no threat to the future of AI.

Month: September 2025

BREAKING: OpenAI on losing track in German copyright case brought by music rights collecting society over song lyrics; injunction looms large

“Fair settlement”: federal judge allows book authors’ $1.5B ($3K/book) agreement with Claude AI maker Anthropic to be implemented

‘AI companies, you are not above the law’: Anthropic’s $1.5B proposed book author copyright settlement receives industry-wide support

$1.5B Anthropic-book author settlement: approval postponed, should never be taken for granted, but trial still appears unlikely

Anthropic’s record $1.5B+ copyright settlement is a great deal for book authors that doesn’t sound the death knells on Generative AI