Sunday, September 07, 2025

Time's Worth

What's your time worth?

Would a chance at $3,000 be worth twenty minutes? That is, assuming that you are a published author and your book is alleged to have been infringed by "Anthropic" to "train AI".

The big caveat is that the works that are included in the settlement might not be all--or the same-- works that are shown on The Atlantic website. 

Here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/

Whether or not The Atlantic gives you hope, or outrage, or any other emotion, it might be worth your while to fill out the Bartz et al v Anthropic form. 

Here: https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/

Ideally, you will want your ISBNs, but you can fill out the form without them. If your rights have reverted, you might want to mention that. In my case, I always retained my e-rights and my paperback publisher breached them.

SFWA reports that, subject to Court approval, the terms of the settlement might include

  • 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 and PiLiMi datasets after the expiration of any litigation preservation or other court orders.

All the best,

Posted by RowenaBCherry at 8:28 AM

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