The landmark piracy case between authors and Anthropic over the company’s training of its Claude AI chatbot is nearing its conclusion, with almost 100,000 claims filed.
Plaintiffs in Bartz v. Anthropic filed a motion for final approval for the settlement agreement, stating, “The class has spoken.” Anthropic is expected to pay $1.5 billion in total, and authors will receive a payout of $3,000 per qualifying work. The settlement was approved in September 2025.
The lawsuit, which initially focused on copyright infringement, alleges that Anthropic illegally downloaded over 500,000 copyrighted works from pirated content websites Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror to train Claude.
Since the process opened, nearly 100,000 claims have been filed, and less than 0.5% of the class members have opted out of the settlement.
Under the settlement agreement, Anthropic has certified that it did not use any pirated content in any released Claude model and has promised
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