[Air-L] More on the Anthropic deal for academic authors

[Paul Levinson]

"Thanks, danah for mentioning the deal with Anthropic to (minimally)
compensate authors whose books were pirated.
First, before you start eyeing a new yacht, keep in mind that the promised
$3K per book settlement is split between authors and publishers. They are
recommending a 50/50 split but that will be up to the publisher. I'm trying
to find out what academic publishers plan to do and will share that
information if/when I get it."

I would add that, of course, that 50/50 split is the case only if the
publisher still has rights to the books in question.  Most of my books are
science fiction novels, and I got the rights back over a decade ago.

All the best, Paul

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On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM Janet Salmons via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> Thanks, danah for mentioning the deal with Anthropic to (minimally)
> compensate authors whose books were pirated.
> First, before you start eyeing a new yacht, keep in mind that the promised
> $3K per book settlement is split between authors and publishers. They are
> recommending a 50/50 split but that will be up to the publisher. I'm trying
> to find out what academic publishers plan to do and will share that
> information if/when I get it.
>
> Also, the fact that they ripped off your books is not enough: the "list"
> represents a narrow time frame. In my case, 6 books are in the database of
> stolen books but only one was taken during the time period covered by the
> settlement.
>
> The process is a little different for authors of textbooks, monographs, or
> books published by university presses. FYI educational/textbook and
> university press/academic authors represent almost half of the close to
> 500,000 works infringed in the class! The Textbook and Academic Authors
> Association collaborated with the Authors Guild to make sure our special
> issues were addressed. TAA's Kim Pawlak was in the hearing room and is
> actively involved in getting correct information to all of us. She asked me
> to share this on my Substack newsletter:
> Info for Educational and University Press Authors Filing Claims in Bartz
> v. Anthropic
> The Textbook & Academic Authors Association provides trustworthy guidance
> https://janetsalmons.substack.com/p/info-for-educational-and-university
>
> By the way, it is a good time to join TAA and/or the Authors Guild!
>
> On other topics, this month my newsletter is focused on qualitative diary
> and narrative methods (
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> Janet
>
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