Anthropic to Pay Millions to Harry Potter Publisher
Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion in the largest copyright agreement in history. One of the main beneficiaries will be Bloomsbury, the publisher of Harry Potter books📖
Until now, AI companies claimed they could train models on copyrighted texts without permission. Now, authors have not only secured a multi-billion payout but also shown that using books for AI training could become a paid license, not a free resource.
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