The Textbook and Academic Authors Association asked permission to intervene in the Anthropic settlement case “to present concerns to the Court regarding the administration of the settlement process.” Based on emails sent to authors by academic publisher Sage Publishing, the association alleges that, “The mass email contained misleading communications—including instructions to authors as to how to fill out the claim submission form in a manner designed to benefit Sage at the authors’ expense.” The association hopes the court will “direct class counsel to issue a curative notice to Class member authors…directing them to disregard communications they might have received from […]
