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Authors Guild says OpenAI executives knew mass book piracy was illegal.
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Authors Guild says OpenAI executives knew mass book piracy was illegal.

Authors and publishers are filing competing claims over payouts from Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement covering 482,000 pirated books.

Authors report publishers and agents wrongly claiming shares of Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement, which pays $3,000 per pirated work across roughly 500,000 titles.
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