After rightsholders found widespread errors in their claims for the Anthropic settlement, the settlement website has continued to vex many people, since records often appear to stay the same and not reflect submitted changes. PL contacted class counsel, who clarified that “the requested changes will not show up in the portal immediately.” (It would be nice if they had indicated that on the settlement website.) When changes are submitted in the portal, the rightsholder gets an instant confirmation email, but that does not mean the underlying record is changed right away. After that, “a staff member from the Settlement Administrator […]
