Quite a few origami books were in the shadow library that Anthropic downloaded, including one of mine.
Unfortunately, however, these books are excluded from this settlement as US copyright registration was required before the the books were dowloaded (to qualify for non-statutory damages). AFAIK, the US is the only country that registers copyright like this, but IANAL. US copyright registration is 45 USD per work https://www.copyright.gov/about/fees.html Tung Ken PS This case is not about the legality of training AI with copyrighted works, but the downloading of works from a shadow library. On Tuesday, 2 December 2025, 16:29:35 GMT, Nicolas TERRY via Origami <[email protected]> wrote: This is the first time I've ever been truly disappointed that none of my books have been pirated.... :o) Nicolas > ... In a nutshell, the AI firm Anthropic allegedly used a huge trove of pirated publications to train their AI model Claude; they have been sued in a class action suit, and rather than face a jury, they have offered to settle, with the settlement amount being $3K per pirated work (divided up among authors, publishers, and some percentage for unspecified fees). So this is a real thing. Here’s an NPR report about the suit and settlement: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5529404/anthropic-settlement-authors-copyright-ai And here’s the official settlement website: https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/ ... Robert
