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Internal Anthropic codename, revealed in unsealed court documents, for the effort to ingest old books via destructive scanning.
Anthropic's settlement list includes at least 22 books by 15 Korean authors, three by Han Kang, among 482,460 eligible works. The count is koreajoongangdaily.com's, and at $3,000 a work the 22 come to $66,000 if every one is claimed.
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A single order matched a week of sales at one Northumberland shop. The legal machinery behind it turns clean pre-LLM text into a purchasable commodity with a jurisdictional price.
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A bookseller's tracker ended up at a Las Vegas warehouse where Amazon staff cut books off their spines. The rumour publishers could not price now has a named party.
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404 Media tracked a rare-book order to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas where spines are cut off to feed a scanner. The destruction is not a quirk. It is a compliance expense.
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Sony Music and Warner Chappell want up to $150,000 for each of thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of songs, and they argue in the filing that the $1.5bn Anthropic already paid was too small to deter anyone valued at $2 trillion.
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The feature list is fixed until the September 15 ship date. Five items are previews you have to ask for; two are HotSpot defaults that apply whether you read the notes or not.
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