This CRS report by C. T. Zirpoli examines limits of U.S. copyright law in the age of generative AI. Because copyright requires human authorship, AI-assisted works like Kristina Kashtanova’s Midjourney novel face copyright denial. 

This New York Times article follows the story of an author who recognized her books were being illegally accessed and used to train Anthropic’s LLM.

This article discloses Anthropic’s settlement deal to the public. The lawsuit was the first of its kind in both copyright and scale. The article provides key metrics, noting that Anthropic agreed to pay $3,000 per work to 500,000 authors.