Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement

Authors clash with publishers over ownership of Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement

Authors expecting payments from Anthropic's $1.5 billion AI copyright settlement are receiving notices that publishers and literary agents are claiming ownership rights over more than 482,000 books, potentially reducing individual author payouts of up to $3,000 per book. The dispute centers on who holds the rights to works used to train Anthropic's AI models.