Bloomsbury among beneficiaries of $1.5 billion AI copyright settlement

British publisher Bloomsbury confirmed Tuesday it will benefit from a $1.5 billion settlement that resolves claims artificial intelligence company Anthropic used copyrighted books to train its AI models without permission.

A U.S. federal judge approved the class-action lawsuit settlement on Monday. Authors had alleged Anthropic used their books without permission to train its Claude AI chatbot.

Bloomsbury stated a U.S. court identified 14,087 of its titles covered by the settlement. The proposed compensation is about $3,000 per title, split equally between the author and publisher.

The settlement represents the largest known copyright payout in U.S. history. Bloomsbury expects the proceeds to be distributed over several payments, beginning in the second half of its financial year.

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Bloomsbury said a U.S. court identified 14,087 of its titles covered by the settlement, with proposed compensation of about $3,000 per title, split equally between the author and publisher.