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The recently proposed $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic—one of the most prominent artificial intelligence (AI) developers—and a class of authors and publishers was poised to be the largest copyright settlement in U.S....more
In a July IP Hot Topic, we wrote about a pivotal summary judgment ruling in Bartz v. Anthropic that added another data point in the newly forming fair use landscape for copyright actions against GenAI companies. In that case,...more
On July 17, 2025, US District Court Judge William Alsup approved a class certification against Anthropic for copyright infringement. According to Judge Alsup, it will be straightforward for the entire class to prove harm...more