Bloomsbury to receive millions from Anthropic's $1.5bn copyright settlement

Bloomsbury, publisher of the Harry Potter series, Sarah J. Maas and Susanna Clarke, will receive a multimillion-pound payout as a beneficiary of a $1.5bn (£1.12bn) copyright settlement between AI startup Anthropic and thousands of authors. The publisher has 14,087 titles listed in the agreement, with proposed compensation of around $3,000 per title. The settlement relates to the use of copyrighted works to train AI chatbots.

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