Judges are signaling skepticism toward large, quick cash settlements in AI copyright cases that leave training practices unchanged. Class-action economics reward lawyers for payouts, not injunctions, while many authors want a Napster‑style shutdown or opt‑out from training. This misalignment risks entrenching mass scraping as legal reality despite public claims of 'victory' for creators.
— If class settlements won’t restrain AI training, lawmakers, regulators, and courts must design remedies beyond cash—injunctions, registries, opt‑outs—to protect creative labor.
BeauHD
2025.09.11
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RSL proposes machine‑readable licensing via robots.txt plus a collective rights organization as an alternative to litigation‑driven settlements, offering a scalable way for AI labs to license training data and for rights holders to get paid (e.g., Reddit, Yahoo, Medium joining the RSL Collective).
Ted Gioia
2025.09.10
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A judge refused to accept authors’ $1.5B settlement with Anthropic, warning class members often 'get the shaft' and implying the deal would be forced 'down the throat of authors.'
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