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A lawsuit is pending that applies particularly to authors of books
and revolves around Anthropic’s use of approximately 500,00 books
to train its AI platform Claude.  At issue is whether this constituted fair use, piracy, and/or copyright violation. A settlement agreement has been preliminarily approved. Authors/publishers whose work is covered by the settlement may receive ~$3,000/book.

The link below from the Authors Guild provides helpful information to determine what books are included in the settlement and how to complete a claim.

https://authorsguild.org/advocacy/artificial-intelligence/what-authors-need-to-know-about-the-anthropic-settlement/

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Universities and Authoritarianism

The group meets by Zoom every second Tuesday of each month. Contact Ellen Pasternack to join. Chuck Bazerman is the group facilitator. 

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