Overview

• Filings ask the San Francisco court for preliminary approval, with a hearing scheduled for Monday before Judge William Alsup.
• The proposed class fund equals about $3,000 per work for roughly 500,000 books, with more to be paid if additional eligible works are identified.
• Anthropic would destroy downloaded datasets acquired from shadow libraries including Library Genesis, Pirate Library Mirror and Books3.
• Payments are staged in four tranches: $300 million after preliminary approval, $300 million after final approval, then $450 million within 12 months of preliminary approval and $450 million a year later.
• The release covers past conduct through Aug. 25, 2025 and does not grant a license for future training, authors retain opt‑out rights, and broader fair‑use and output‑infringement issues remain unresolved.