# Anthropic 15亿美元版权集体诉讼和解获最终批准

- 来源：TechCrunch：AI（RSS）
- 作者：Kirsten Korosec
- 发布时间：2026-07-21 08:12
- AIHOT 分数：64
- AIHOT 链接：https://aihot.virxact.com/items/cmrtwqk723cdnbihzooftab1r
- 原文链接：https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/anthropics-landmark-1-5b-copyright-settlement-is-approved

## AI 摘要

美国联邦法官周一最终批准了Anthropic就版权集体诉讼达成的15亿美元和解协议。该和解将向约50万部作品的版权持有者每部作品支付3000美元，是史上金额最大的版权和解案之一。尽管法官此前裁定AI模型在受版权保护文本上训练属于合理使用，但Anthropic从盗版网站下载书籍的行为被认定违法，公司为避免审判而同意和解。

## 正文

Anthropic can finally start cutting checks to a group of authors and book publishers that sued the AI lab over copyright infringement. A federal judge gave final approval Monday of Anthropic’s landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a class action copyright lawsuit, Reuters reported.

Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a preliminary approval of the settlement last year, after ruling that Anthropic had illegally downloaded and stored millions of copyrighted books.

Alsup has since retired and Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin signed off on the settlement on Monday.

The payout will deliver $3,000 per work across an estimated 500,000 works, shared among the authors and publishers who hold rights to them. While the settlement is believed to be the largest in the history of U.S. copyright law, many authors and creators still don’t view it as a win.

That’s because of how the legal question was resolved. Alsup sided with Anthropic on the core issue. He ruled that training an AI model on copyrighted text counts as fair use — a decision widely seen as a turning point for the AI industry. But the ruling didn’t excuse how Anthropic obtained the books in the first place. Anthropic had built its training library from two sources: books it purchased and scanned (fine), and books it downloaded from pirate sites like Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror. Alsup found the second method illegal on its own terms and said that piracy question could go to trial; Anthropic agreed to a settlement soon after to avoid a trial and whatever damages a jury might have awarded.

While the final approval closes out this case, it doesn’t settle the legal question industry-wide because Alsup’s ruling was a single district court decision, and Anthropic’s decision to settle means the case will never reach an appeals court to become binding precedent.

Other judges are still free to reach their own conclusions on their own facts, which is exactly what’s playing out elsewhere. There is still a string of copyright lawsuits against companies such as Google, Meta, Midjourney, and OpenAI over whether it’s legal to train AI models on copyrighted works. Just last week, a group of publishers and authors, including Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, author Scott Turow, and S.C.R.I.B.E.filed a class action lawsuitagainst Google over accusations that the company used their copyrighted works to train its AI platform, Gemini.