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Anthropic Settles With Authors For $1.5 Billion
Anthropic has settled the copyright infringement lawsuit brought by a class of authors for at least $1.5 billion, plus interest. The proposed settlement, once approved by the court, will be split among the rightsholders of all of the books included in the class after administration and lawyers’ fees and expenses, and will pay out in four installments, with the full settlement amount being paid by Anthropic over two years. Anthropic is paying $3,000 for each infringed work with a registered US copyright, and this huge win for creators comprises the “the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history” in the […]
National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
Forthcoming: ‘Famesick’ by Lena Dunham
Random House will publish FAMESICK by Lena Dunham on April 14, 2026, ten years after the release of her first essay collection, Not That Kind of Girl. A release describes the book as “a frank, deeply personal reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between,” and Vogue writes that it is is “a nonfiction work about how health troubles have intersected with her life in the spotlight.” Dunham says of her first book, “I’m very proud of that book, but it’s funny to look back at myself as a 28-year-old, publishing work with these tidy life lessons at the […]