Law.com has named the plaintiffs’ litigation team, co-led by Lieff Cabraser partner Rachel Geman, as “Litigators of the Week” for their groundbreaking work in reaching a $1.5 billion settlement for authors and copyright holders in a landmark copyright infringement lawsuit against AI company Anthropic.

The proposed settlement, which would provide approximately $3,000 in compensation per work, is believed to be the largest copyright recovery ever obtained and the first of its kind in the AI era. Plaintiffs alleged that Anthropic unlawfully downloaded and used millions of books from the pirated databases Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror to train its AI chatbot, Claude.

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