Category: Anthropic

EXCLUSIVE: lead counsel Justin Nelson of Susman Godfrey on $1.5B Anthropic settlement

October 28, 2025

In an exclusive interview with ai fray, Justin Nelson of Susman Godfrey discussed the $1.5 billion settlement Bartz v. Anthropic copyright class action settlement that he was lead counsel for (on the plaintiff side), including why he decided to get involved in the case, the precedents it will set, and how authors can understand whether…
‘That is theft, it’s pure theft’: an interview with Susman Godfrey AI lawyer Justin Nelson, co-lead counsel in $1.5B Anthropic matter

October 28, 2025

Susman Godfrey’s Justin Nelson, first-chair trial counsel for a class of copyright holders in a $1.5 billion action against Claude AI maker Anthropic, sat down with ai fray to discuss his work on the settlement, how authors can find out if they are a member of the class, and the impending future of AI litigation.
BREAKING: Anthropic settles book authors’ copyright class action — win for lawyer who got Fox to pay $800M for falsehoods about voting machines

August 26, 2025

Justin Nelson of Susman Godfrey settled Dominion v. Fox in 2023 and has now struck the next major settlement representing book authors against Anthropic.
Anthropic draws judge’s ire in book authors’ multi-billion-dollar copyright case: “if Anthropic loses big it will be because what it did wrong was also big”

August 11, 2025

Judge Alsup has denied Anthropic’s motion for a stay and seized the opportunity to set the record straight on what the case is about and what his objective is.
Claude AI maker Anthropic bags key “fair use” win for AI platforms, but faces trial over damages for millions of pirated works

June 24, 2025

Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson’s class action against Anthropic will proceed to trial, despite the Northern District of California finding most of the AI platform’s use of the book authors’ works was “fair”.
Claude AI provider Anthropic says it might owe $750 BILLION in copyright damages should book authors’ class action succeed

April 19, 2025

Context: Among the dozens of AI-related copyright infringement lawsuits that are presently pending (most of them in the U.S.), Bartz v. Anthropic in the Northern District of California is one of the more interesting ones. It’s a class action on behalf of book authors against an AI provider that is known for its Claude AI…
Anthropic holds back evidence, annoys judge who seeks to clarify key copyright question: can piracy be cured by fair use?

April 4, 2025

Context: Last summer, book authors brought a class action against Claude maker Anthropic (August 20, 2024 ai fray article). Claude is known for its ability to generate particularly large documents, such as long texts. What’s new: There have recently been some filings in this case (Bartz v. Anthropic) that show the litigation is heating up…
Music publishers denied preliminary injunction in U.S. copyright infringement suit against Anthropic

March 26, 2025

The suit is one of a growing number of complaints filed against AI providers for copyright infringement in the music industry.
Anthropic “blindsided” by proposed U.S. Google AI investment ban, seeks to participate in DOJ antitrust suit

February 19, 2025

Forcing Google to divest its investment in AI firms could seriously impact Anthropic’s ability to develop new products and remain competitive in the tight race at the AI frontier, Anthropic has complained.
FTC releases Staff Report on AI Partnerships & Investments: collection of information and innuendo with unclear contours

January 17, 2025

Just prior to the transition of power in Washington, D.C., the Federal Trade Commission released a staff report on AI partnerships.