Aaron Moss Quoted in Corporate Counsel on Anthropic Copyright Settlement
Aaron Moss was quoted in Corporate Counsel’s coverage of the proposed $1.5 billion settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic, in the article "How Anthropic Was Able to Settle Potentially Ruinous Copyright Litigation for Such a Modest Sum," published on September 24, 2025. The litigation stems from allegations that Anthropic trained its AI system Claude on pirated books sourced from shadow libraries.
From the article...
Aaron Moss, a partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, noted on his Copyright Lately blog that Anthropic has a valuation of $183 billion and just raised $13 billion from an all-star lineup of investors, making the $1.5 billion settlement nothing more than "a parking ticket" or a "rounding error."
He added: "The message from Silicon Valley and Wall Street is unmistakable: at this scale, infringement liability isn’t so much an existential threat as a line item."
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