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Anthropic has settled its copyright lawsuit brought by a class of authors for $1.5 billion. The settlement will be split among the rightsholders of all of the books included in the class after administration and lawyers’ fees and expenses, and will pay out in four installments, with the full settlement being paid in two years. The court for the Northern District of California writes, “Anthropic will pay the Class at least $1.5 billion dollars, plus interest. With around 500,000 works in the Class, this amounts to an estimated gross recovery of $3,000 per Class Work. Anthropic will destroy the LibGen

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