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Don Burnside 🇺🇸11h ago

Heads-up for published authors:

The deadline to join the Anthropic class-action copyright settlement is March 30. If you have published a book, you may be eligible to receive ~$1,500 per book, so it’s worth your time to check it out.

I had been putting it off and finally completed my forms last week.

Learn more at the Authors Guild: https://authorsguild.org/advocacy/artificial-intelligence/what-authors-need-to-know-about-the-anthropic-settlement/

Start the process: https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement

Updated February 18, 2026 IMPORTANT: The Claims Deadline Is March 30 Background Bartz v. Anthropic is one of the major copyright lawsuits brought by authors against an AI company for using books without permission to train large language models. It […]

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aspeed, a/k/a Dumpster Peacock 12h ago

@grammargirl I wish I could, as they stole all my books. But they've said only one anthology I was a part of is eligible.

@grammargirl It's interesting to watch the payout allocations drop as more and more authors join in I(as they should, but still). The payout when I signed on was over $3000 per book

Daniel Keys Moran 11h ago

@leslie @grammargirl still is if you own your own copyrights. If you're splitting with a publisher, it's $1,500.

♿ 🏳️‍🌈 La pantera roja 12h ago

@grammargirl The last link doesn't work, it seems.

Mignon Fogarty 10h ago

@beckermatic It worked for me just now. Maybe try it again?

♿ 🏳️‍🌈 La pantera roja 9h ago

Working now!

@grammargirl Are co-authors eligible? And also, I loved Grammar Girl, and I read as many books as I could before I started my career in tech writing. I still have a couple Grammar Girl books in my reference library at home.

Mignon Fogarty 10h ago

@0f4d0335 Hey, thanks!

I believe you're eligible if you're named on the copyright filing, but you should read the Authors Guild post to be sure.

Also, I think you can search your name at the settlement site to see if you come up.

Scary Austin 11h ago

@grammargirl Saw this on Bsky just now:

Maria Langer | 📝💎🌵🛥️11h ago

@grammargirl The numbers seem to keep going down…

Zumbador 8h ago

@grammargirl
You can only join this if your copyright was registered in the US. All writers from other countries (where the laws respect copyright without having to have it registered) are out of luck.

ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘7h ago

@Zumbador @grammargirl "Out of luck"? Nope, they're the lucky ones because they can assert their copyright at any time.

Zumbador 51m ago

@anne_twain @grammargirl we are the unlucky ones, because our copyright has been broken but we have no recourse, because there is no class action lawsuit that we can join.

Quim Nuss Székely 6h ago

@grammargirl do they have to be US-based?

Anton Piatek 5h ago

@grammargirl @drajt seems pretty low per book to me given the fines issued previously for downloading a movie (also the movie was usually intended for single consumption, not commercial resale)