Anthropic publishes $1.5B settlement book list; includes works by Han Kang and other Korean authors

What happened

Anthropic published the list of works covered by its $1.5 billion copyright settlement in the Bartz v. Anthropic class action, making public which books were among the roughly 482,460 works included in the settlement.

What the list shows

• Korean media report that the list includes at least 22 works by Korean authors.
• Included titles reportedly include three by Nobel laureate Han Kang (Human Acts, The Vegetarian, The White Book), four by Kim Young-ha, and three by Shin Kyung-sook, plus works by Hwang Sok-yong and Kim Ae-ran.
• The settlement (reported previously) resolved claims that Anthropic downloaded more than 7 million digital copies from unauthorized sources between 2021 and 2022 to train Claude, with a court finding that downloading and storing pirated copies was not fair use even as training itself was deemed fair use.

Status

This item covers the October 16 publication of the covered-works list, a new development in the already-reported settlement. Inclusion on the list does not add new factual findings about Anthropic's conduct beyond what was established in the settlement.