New economics of AI training

As AI adoption accelerates across sectors, the inevitability of class actions is a strategic reality.

Anthropic, the San Francisco-originated AI company behind the Claude model, recently faced a class action lawsuit over alleged unauthorised use of books to train its systems. The $1.5 billion settlement, covering approximately $3,000 per book across hundreds of thousands of titles, is now the largest copyright recovery in history and the first major settlement of its kind in the AI-era.