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Class Action

Dec. 26, 2025

Authors reject AI copyright settlement, sue tech giants

Six authors who opted out of a $1.5 billion class action settlement against Anthropic PBC filed a new lawsuit against the company and five other tech giants, alleging they used pirated copies of copyrighted books to train AI models.

A group of authors who opted out of a landmark class action settlement over the alleged use of their work to train AI models filed a new lawsuit against six tech giants in federal court, hoping to secure more money for the alleged copyright infringement.

The five authors -- represented by Stris & Maher LLP and Freedman Normand Friedland LLP -- allege Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Perplexity used pirated copies of their work to train AI models.

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