The Anthropic Copyright case Part Two

Books that do not have a legal copyright were eliminated from the lawsuit. Considering that they are supposed to pay $1,500 a book, gee, I could have made a fortune with my twenty-three titles, probably more than I have ever earned writing. But the fine print does say the author gets what is left over after legal fees and handling. In my scant experience with class action lawsuits, my son once got $37 from a lawsuit that he couldn't even remember by the time it was settled.  Despite this, I found and filled in a form to claim a settlement from my lone title. The Authors' Guild also has a reliable source for this form, but there are lots of the out there. Be careful not to use any that ask you for money. I used the one at www.AnthropicCopyrightSettlement.com. The deadline for filing is January fifteenth. I won't get much, but do hope  my pittance and thousands of others hurt Anthropic as much as they have hurt us.

On a lighter note, one of my friends suggested I might someday be proud to have had my writing skills used to develop early AI. Hmmm, not so much. If I publish another book, I will be sure to put the statenebt in the front that my work is not to be used to train AI without my permission--as if that will stop them.

Bad News--Good News? The Anthropic Copyright Case

 Considering myself to be a virtually insignificant author, I'd been ignoring many posts from various places about the Anthropic Copyright Class Action lawsuit. I mean, who would want to copy my writing style for AI, especially when I'd been told recently that my style was too old-fashioned and not emo enough. And then, I got a call from my daughter saying that my very best book, Queen of the Mardi Gras Ball, was already included in the suit--but I sure hadn't put it there.

This put my husband on the hunt for more information which he found in The Atlantic magazine which listed all the titles that had been pirated and used for AI training, thousands of them, and twenty-three of my thirty-nine titles were on the list.  Twenty-two of them were Wild Rose books and one strange choice, a sequel to a book I did for another press which is now out of print. But of all those books, only Queen had a national copyright that I'd shelled out money and filled in a tedious form to obtain.  Silly me, I thought implied copyright as stated in the front of my books was enough for protection. Big nope.  Here is the link if you want to look for your books.https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/ . www.theatlan