Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement
2026-09-06 · TechCrunch
Authors are fighting with their own publishers and agents over who gets the bigger slice of Anthropic's settlement pie. Turns out getting your work scraped by AI wasn't the last indignity — now the middlemen want their cut of the apology money too. Nothing says 'we value creators' like a three-way fight over compensation for unauthorized use.