GoKawiilStanford professors sue Anthropic separately over book piracy after $1.5B settlement
A federal judge ruled in Bartz v. Anthropic that the AI company illegally pirated books from more than 10 Stanford professors, including Tobias Wolff and Chang-rae Lee, to train Claude. Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement covering nearly 500,000 works, but Wolff and Lee opted out and filed a separate suit, Cruz v. Anthropic, seeking up to $150,000 per infringed work through a jury trial.