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Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlement

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Bloomsbury, publisher of the Harry Potter series, is receiving millions of pounds as part of a one point five billion dollar copyright settlement with AI startup Anthropic. The agreement compensates thousands of authors whose protected work was used to train the company's AI chatbots. Per The Guardian, Bloomsbury's fourteen thousand eighty-seven titles qualify for compensation, with each receiving approximately three thousand dollars.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/22/blooms...

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