Intellectual Property
Dec. 23, 2025
Authors reject AI copyright settlement, sue tech giants
Six authors who opted out of a $1.5 billion class action settlement against Anthropic PBC filed a new lawsuit Monday against the company and five other tech giants, alleging they used pirated copies of copyrighted books to train AI models.
A group of authors who pulled out of a $1.5 billion class action settlement against Anthropic PBC over its use of their copyrighted work to train AI models, believing the amount was too low, filed a new lawsuit against the company and five other tech giants in federal court Monday.
The five authors -- represented by Stris & Maher LLP and Freedman Normand Friedland LLP -- allege Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Perplexity used pirated copies of their work to train AI mo...
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