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Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement Wasn't the End of the Bill. It Was the Price Tag Everyone Else Rejected.

When Anthropic settled the Bartz case for $1.5 billion — about $3,000 a book — the press called AI's copyright question resolved. A Pulitzer winner and five other authors read the same number, opted out, and are now arguing it was 50 times too low, across six labs at once. The real exposure isn't the six-author suit, which is pocket change. It's that the settlement re-priced the liability upward and left a tail that, unlike a class deal, can't be capped — right as these companies walk into IPOs that assume it's over.

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