alt Hacker NewsThis is a settlement that the authors and Anthropic agreed upon.
They agreed on the amount last year. The judge approved it now.
The lawsuit was for the way the books were acquired. They already ruled that it's not infringement to use the books.
The award was $3,000 per book, which is about 100X higher than it would have cost to buy the books.
It's never going to appease the people who demand companies be sued into collapse, but given that both parties came to an agreement and the damages are 100X higher than what a book costs, it looks reasonable to me.
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> The award was $3,000 per book, which is about 100X higher than it would have cost to buy the books.
How many of the authors would license their book for endless creation of derivative works for that amount?
100x the books? Buying a book does not let you redistribute its contents.
If you are selling more than 100 books you are clearly losing out
This case did at least shed light on the fair use argument.