One-hundred-seventeen authors who opted out of the Bartz v. Anthropic settlement are suing Anthropic separately for copyright infringement, led by Thomas William Shakespeare. (Just two of the plaintiffs, Laura Esquivel and Jordi Castells, have sought court approval for opting out after the deadline.) The authors all assert that they “did not discover, and could not have reasonably discovered, that their specific works were included in Anthropic’s private, internal database” until “November 24, 2025, when the direct notice to class members was completed and/or their claims were tolled pending the approval of the settlement of Bartz, or February 9, 2026, the […]
