An AI startup has agreed to a $2.2 billion copyright settlement. But will Australian writers benefit?
- Written by Agata Mrva-Montoya, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney

Anthropic, an AI startup founded in 2021, has reached a groundbreaking US$1.5 billion settlement (AU$2.28 billion) in a class-action copyright lawsuit. The case was initiated in 2024 by novelist Andrea Bartz and non-fiction writers Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson.
If the settlement is approved by the...