Hundreds of Irish writers are set to share millions of euro following a €1.31 billion settlement of a copyright infringement case by artificial intelligence giant Anthropic. The settlement, which the Irish Writers Union said is the first case against tech companies over the training of their large language models, will result in hundreds of authors sharing several million euro. The case was a class action taken in 2024 by Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson, and by the end of the process some 482,000 works were involved, with claims made in respect of 91 per cent of them. The compensation was for Anthropic's reliance on the LibGen online library, which operates outside of copyright regulations. The settlement of $1.5 billion (€1.31 billion) amounts to about $3,000 (€2,630) for each book believed to have been copied. To file a successful claim, the book must have been registered for copyright in the United States on the date of the settlement.