Editing Bartz v Anthropic PBC (section)

== Final Approval (July 20, 2026) ==
Judge Martínez-Olguín granted final approval to the $1.5 billion settlement on July 20, 2026, and CourtListener lists the case as terminated on that date.<ref name="reuters-final-2026" /><ref name="unite-final-2026" /><ref name="courtlistener-2026" /> The fund covers more than 480,000 books at roughly $3,000 per work; Anthropic admitted no wrongdoing.<ref name="unite-final-2026" /> The settlement requires destruction of files obtained from Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror, but its release is limited to past acquisition of covered books and does not license future training or release claims about Claude outputs.<ref name="unite-final-2026" /> Payments remain subject to appeals, and opt-outs may continue separate claims.<ref name="unite-final-2026" />

On July 22, Bloomsbury Publishing said 14,087 of its titles appear on the court's settlement list. Bloomsbury said the proposed allocation is approximately $3,000 per work before fees and expenses, divided equally between the author and publisher, and that it expects payments to begin in the second half of its financial year.<ref name="bloomsbury-2026">[https://www.bloomsbury-ir.co.uk/media/press_releases/2026/220726.asp Bloomsbury Publishing, "$1.5bn Anthropic Settlement Approved" (July 22, 2026)]</ref><ref name="tnw-bloomsbury-2026">[https://thenextweb.com/news/bloomsbury-anthropic-copyright-settlement The Next Web, "Bloomsbury among publishers in line for payout from Anthropic’s $1.5bn copyright settlement" (July 22, 2026)]</ref>