Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlement

Bloomsbury has 14,087 titles listed within settlement between AI startup and authors over use of protected workThe publisher of Harry Potter has received a multimillion-pound payout as a beneficiary of a $1.5bn (£1.12bn) copyright settlement between the AI startup Anthropic and thousands of authors over the use of their protected work to power chatbots.Bloomsbury, which is home to the bestselling novelists Sarah J Maas and Susanna Clarke as well as JK Rowling, said it had 14,087 titles listed within the settlement, with a proposed compensation of about $3,000 per title. Continue reading...