Tufts professor’s book among illegally pirated works in Anthropic copyright settlement

Professors and scholars nationwide were recently involved in a 2025 class-action settlement over th e use of copyrighted books and research to train Anthropic’s artificial intelligence models. The lawsuit, Bartz v. Anthropic, resulted in a ruling that $1.5 billion would be paid to authors and publishers across the country, including Associate Professor Craig Cipolla in the Department of Anthropology at Tufts University, among other academics, primarily in social science and humanities departments. “ I was disappointed ... just because [of] the amount of hours that particular book — which is my first book — represents to me,” he said.

First reported by The Tufts Daily. This page is a short excerpt; the full text is theirs.