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Are you due money from Anthropic ‘AI’?
IN SEPTEMBER a settlement of a “class action” lawsuit against the company Anthropic AI gained preliminary approval from a court. The company offered $1.5 billion for copyright infringements in its development of the “Claude” generative AI language model and subscription services. Your deadline to lodge a claim is Monday 30 March.
Not the sort of helping hand Anthropic had in mind when it used this logo in 2023?
It currently appears to the
- you have words in a book that is on the list of woths that Anthropic downloaded from “pirate librariesd”; and
- the book has an ISBN or an Amazon “ASIN” identifier; and
- the work was registered with the US Copyright Office within five years of publication
Reporting of the case has focused almost entirely on the likely payout of $3000 per book. Edward Hasbrouck, writing for the US National Writers Union, which represents freelances, points out that it is (of course) more complicated than that... Articles, poems, and chapters included in books are unlikely to be separately listed, or listed in your name. You will need to search the list of included 'works' for each book in which any of your work appeared, using the book title and the main author or editor of the book, not your name or the title of your contribution to the book.”
The list of works is available at the settlement website. You will not be entitled to payment for works in which you did not retain copyright - which are being referred to in the litigation by the US label “works for hire”.
Lookup tool anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
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