**Anthropic AI Class Action Lawsuit**'nAUTHOR FRIENDS: the searchable claims database is up!

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

**Anthropic AI Class Action Lawsuit**

AUTHOR FRIENDS: the searchable claims database is up! Make sure you check for your works (and check misspellings of your names, titles, etc, the database is a mess).

TELL YOUR FRIENDS
https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/

The FAQ will answer your questions but I also wrote an editorial about the lawsuit in Sigma (local PGH SFF newsletter): https://parsec-sff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Sigma-473-September-2025.pdf

Anyway, check it out!
Sue

#writers #writing #AI

[ehasbrouck@union.place]

@susankayequinn - More from the National Writers Union:

https://nwu.org/anthropic/

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

@ehasbrouck

oh this is fucked

"Once a book is out of print and the publisher is no longer paying royalties to the author, the publisher has no reason to keep track of the author’s address. If a publisher makes a claim for a work included in the settlement, but the author’s address is unknown, the publisher gets to keep 100% of the payment for that work. So publishers have a financial incentive not to provide authors’ addresses..."

[artharg@mastodon.nl]

@susankayequinn @ehasbrouck Seems like the simple solution is for writers to send their address to the publisher, noting explicitly in the letter that it is for the express purpose of receiving the settlement. If the publisher then keeps the money, it is embezzlement.