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AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit
(www.theguardian.com)
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Glad to see they have to pay up but what was different about this compared to the similar case that Meta won the other day?
It's not really a good thing though. $1.5bil will be a drop in the bucket for them. This is a settlement, which means it won't set any legal precedence.