{"id":198890,"date":"2026-03-24T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/anthropics-ai-piracy-settlement-is-getting-close-to-final-approval\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:15:18","slug":"anthropics-ai-piracy-settlement-is-getting-close-to-final-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/anthropics-ai-piracy-settlement-is-getting-close-to-final-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic&#8217;s AI Piracy Settlement Is Getting Close to Final Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/anthropics-ai-piracy-settlement-is-getting-close-to-final-approval\/\">Anthropic&#8217;s AI Piracy Settlement Is Getting Close to Final Approval<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/anthropics-ai-piracy-settlement-is-getting-close-to-final-approval\/\">https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/anthropics-ai-piracy-settlement-is-getting-close-to-final-approval\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-24 17:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnet.com\">www.cnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The landmark piracy lawsuit, Bartz v. Anthropic, is nearing its conclusion, with a proposed settlement nearing final approval.<\/li>\n<li>Anthropic is expected to pay a total of $1.5 billion, with authors receiving $3,000 per qualifying work.<\/li>\n<li>Nearly 100,000 claims have been filed and less than 0.5% of the eligible class members have opted out of the settlement.<\/li>\n<li>Anthropic has certified that it did not use pirated content in any released models and has committed to destroying all pirated copies of authors&#8217; works.<\/li>\n<li>The court, led by US District Judge William Alsup, has organized an extensive outreach program to ensure qualified authors could join the lawsuit.<\/li>\n<li>The final approval hearing for the settlement is scheduled for April 23, with the last day for class members to file a claim being March 30.<\/li>\n<li>The settlement has garnered support from writers&#8217; groups and organizations, establishing it as the largest copyright payout in history and the first major AI company settlement of its kind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic&#8217;s AI Piracy Settlement Is Getting Close to Final Approval https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/anthropics-ai-piracy-settlement-is-getting-close-to-final-approval\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-24 17:59:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/4817d8aab2ff99d089a47ecaf1e16bd580eb6be4\/hub\/2025\/05\/22\/87146714-becc-4857-9879-483446a53dd2\/claude-ai-9831.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198892,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198890\/revisions\/198892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}