Wow. Final judgement in the Anthropic class action is approved.
Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to authors whose works it pirated. The lawyers get $101.56 million (6.8%); a third of what they initially requested.
There is a 30-day notice-of-appeal period.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.434709/gov.uscourts.cand.434709.680.0_1.pdf
Martin Paul Eve
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