Anthropic’s $1.5B book settlement turns every eligible title into a payout unit
The headline number is $1.5 billion, but the useful detail is the unit of payment: each eligible title gets an equal share, then authors and publishers split it after fees and expenses. About 500,000 titles qualify, implying at least roughly $3,000 gross per title, not per author. New claim notices show who else claimed each work and what percentage they requested, making co-rightsholder disputes the next bottleneck.