(Image credit: Claude) A U.S. federal judge granted the final approval of Anthropic’s $1.5-billion settlement over the class action lawsuit authors filed against it for infringing their rights. According to Reuters , while the court ruled that training AI on books is considered fair use under copyright law, it was the fact that Anthropic kept 7 million pirated books in a central library that violated the copyrights of the authors and their publishers. This is reportedly the biggest payout in a copyright case ever, and the first one to settle among the many cases against AI firms being tried today for infringement. Go deeper with TH Premium: AI and data centers While this might seem like a massive sum, the huge number of involved works and authors means that the payout amounts to a little over $200 per title. It also affirmed that AI firms’ use of existing works to train their models is fair use, which is something that many are fighting against.…