Anthropic settles copyright dispute
It's a bit unclear if academic work affected and how it will be treated - at least to me.
The ALCS has provided some information for UK authors registered with them on the Anthropic settlement here. Tomorrow, Thursday, October 2, the website www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com will be made live. This website will include a searchable list of all works eligible for compensation. It will also include a claims form for those with eligible works. This is how you identify yourself and officially request payment. The website will also include a calendar of relevant deadlines.
BUT here’s where it gets complicated, as eligible works need to fulfil a range of conditions. For authors outside of the US, their works must:
Have been downloaded from LibGen and/or PiLiMi
Have been registered with the US Copyright Office within 3 months of publication or before it was downloaded by Anthropic and within 5 years of publication
Have a valid ISBN or ASIN
Personally, I am very unclear where this leaves academic authors. From the pirated database used by another AI developed and published by the Atlantic, it is clear that academic work features in the training data.
This is all part of a lawsuit brought by authors in the US and the Authors’ Guild. For more information, see: