Anthropic Copyright Settlement Claim Form
First, please read the complete, Court-approved Class Notice about the preliminarily approved settlement and the four options available to Class Members that the Court advises Class Members to read.
You may be eligible to receive a cash payment if:
- You are a legal, beneficial, or sole owner of the exclusive right to reproduce a copyrighted work;
- The work is included in the Works List; and
- You are not a director, officer, or employee of Anthropic, PBC, and you are not personnel of federal agencies or of the United States District Court.
Typically, a contract between a publisher and author establishes these rights. In some cases, a contract may specify whether and/or how litigation proceeds will be split between authors and publishers.
For purposes of this claims process:
A legal owner of a work holds the exclusive right to publish and reproduce that work. Often, the legal owner of the work is the publisher because it holds the right to reproduce by contract.
A beneficial owner of a work is a former legal owner who assigned the exclusive right to publish and reproduce the work to another in exchange for royalty payments. Often, authors are beneficial owners.
A sole owner holds all rights to reproduce the work. Examples of sole ownership include:
- An author whose rights in the work have reverted from the publisher.
- An author whose rights assigned to the publisher have terminated.
- A self-published author who did not work with a co-author and never assigned rights to a publisher.
- A publisher that commissioned a work-for-hire, as defined in the Copyright Act.
- A publisher to which all rights in a work have been assigned, with no royalty obligations to an author or anyone else.
If you are not sure, consult your contract or contact Class Counsel.
You may search the Works List online at www.AnthropicCopyrightSettlement.com/lookup
If your work does not appear on the Works List, your work is not part of the settlement, your claims about that work are not being released, and you should not submit a claim for that work.
