I have no problem with anyone "incentivizing" copyright holders to license their works to AI companies.  But it needs to be negotiated with each rights holder and the default setting needs to be that a copyrighted work does not get used for AI training unless there is permission from the rights holder to do so.

Yes, a friend's dead mom's nonfiction was stolen, too. Who knows?

I would think that a 10% payout would be nice (although not exciting), but even a 1% payout would still be over $300 to me. Likely? I don't think so. On the other hand, this case has blown up so fast it will be hard to pad the attorneys' fees all the way to 100%.

We once received a class action payment for over $1k--and had to declare it as taxable income, by the way. Most payouts are under $30, and they also are taxable income. I'm sure some people don't declare those random checks for $12 or so, but once it's over $600, the issuing party has to send a 1099, and yeah, it's income tax time. There is an exception, but it has to do with physical injuries, and we certainly haven't been biffed over the head by LibGen or Anthropic. Thank goodness.

Edited to add: Actually, I would be very happy to receive enough of a payout to cover the production costs of my next several books.

It's 7 million ebooks. There's a lot of authors ripped off.

And they are still getting ripped off.  It's an estimated $3,000 per work, but then attorneys' fees other costs will be deducted from that amount before the authors get anything.

Statutory fees for copyright infringement range between $750 and $30,000 per work infringed, plus attorneys' fees.

So, Anthropic is getting off easy and the attorneys will no doubt make out like bandits and authors get screwed again.

Three of mine. I'm submitting the form today

A link to a searchable list of books that are included in the Anthropic settlement:
https://secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

I took it from John Sclazi's blog post: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/02/authors-time-to-get-that-bag/