U.S. District Judge Northern District of California William Alsup approved the $1.5 billion copyright infringement settlement between Anthropic and the class of author plaintiffs. The plaintiffs filed additional documents on Tuesday answering the judge’s 34 questions and explaining the claims process. The documents also revealed that the final works list included 482,460 titles. Anthropic will pay about $3000 a book. Bloomberg reports that Alsup called the settlement “fair” and said the plaintiffs will need “excellent” lawyers to execute the claims process. He said, “We have some of the best lawyers in America in the courtroom right now and I think …