🤖📚 Authors Challenge Claims on Anthropic’s $1.5B Settlement

Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement is facing new problems after some authors said publishers and literary agents were making unexpected claims on their payments.

The settlement covers nearly 500,000 books that were used to train AI models. Authors may receive around $3,000 for each work, but the payment depends on who owns the publishing rights.

Some writers say publishers are asking for money from books whose rights had already reverted to the authors. Others say certain publishers are requesting 100% of payments when they may only be entitled to half.

Experts say the problem may be caused by poor record-keeping rather than intentional wrongdoing, but the number of similar complaints suggests the issue could be more widespread.

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🔗 Source: TechCrunch
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