Court approves Anthropic’s historic copyright settlement with authors

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has given preliminary approval to what litigants agreed was the largest-ever class action settlement in a copyright case, ending the first of several high-profile lawsuits pending against major artificial intelligence developers on the issue.

“The Court granted preliminary approval to the class settlement, preliminary approval to the plan of distribution, and preliminary approval to the plan for notice,” the docket reads following a Sept. 25 motion hearing held before...