{"schema_version":"0.10.0","id":"LR-2026-0346","record_version":1,"title":"NZ authors receive payout after AI chatbot trained on pirated books","verification":{"human_verified":false,"method":"automated_gate","auto_verified":true,"score":46.6,"score_breakdown":{"source_authority":12.1,"independent_corroboration":7.0,"implicated_party_confirmed":0.0,"citation_integrity":14.0,"specificity":3.0,"completeness":3.2,"unhedged_language":5.0},"checks":{"schema_valid":true,"every_field_cited":true,"quotes_verbatim":true,"source_fetched":true,"distinct_incident":true,"dates_plausible":true,"sources_agree":true,"source_describes_incident":true,"severe_backed_by_source":true,"record_integrity":true,"eligible":true,"about_this_case":true},"gate_version":"gate-2026-10-18.7","cross_check_model":null,"cross_check_agreement":null,"duplicate_of":null,"verified_by":null,"verified_at":"2026-11-01","extraction_run_id":null,"evidence_level":{"level":"preliminary","reason":"Publisher not yet named · subject to change","original_document":null,"reports_total":1,"reports_independent":0,"reports_derivative":0,"developing":false,"disputed":false,"rules_version":"evidence-2026-10-29.1","computed_at":"2026-11-01","history":[{"date":"2026-11-01","from_level":null,"to_level":"preliminary","reason":"Publisher not yet named · subject to change"}]},"sources_hash":"0a8fc9771b7f568f031d47a7bbb414cae6b69290b682ccf7f6f92f3cb9115b65"},"system":{"model_name":null,"model_version":null,"developer":"Anthropic","harness":null,"tools_granted":[],"permissions_scope":null,"autonomy_level":"unknown","guardrails_present":[],"deployment_context":"unknown","tier":null,"lifecycle_stage":null,"integration_type":null,"intended_use":null,"safeguard_state":null,"production_intended":null},"event":{"date_occurred":null,"date_disclosed":"2025-12-03","incident_class":"ip_infringement","failure_class":null,"agent_involved":null,"secondary_failure_classes":[],"trigger":"unknown","duration":null,"detection_method":"unknown","summary":"Anthropic agreed to pay up to $1.5 billion to settle a class action in US courts over claims that it used millions of pirated books to train its large language models. Commentator Peter Griffin said the settlement pivoted on the company's use of two book piracy websites to source content, and that the ruling did not counter the use of intellectual property for training AI models without permission. Only books registered with the US copyright office were eligible for the settlement, so authors of many titles will not be compensated. Author Catherine Chidgey said she received an email saying her books had been identified as caught up in the case, and that authors were offered US$3000 for each title accessed. The New Zealand Society of Authors said about 1.5 million of about 7.5 million pirated books would be eligible for compensation.","tags":[],"date_detected":null,"near_miss":null,"root_cause":null,"root_cause_detail":null,"failure_class_detail":null,"responsible_party":null,"adversarial_actor":null,"input_provenance":null,"time_to_contain":null,"operations_paused":null,"remediation":null,"precursor_events":null,"primary_risk":"RK17"},"impact":{"direct_loss_usd":null,"remediation_hours":null,"records_exposed":null,"third_parties_affected_count":null,"severity":"moderate","severity_because":"Test: moderate, because data of others was touched and the scope is bounded: only books registered with the US copyright office were eligible for the settlement","harm_class":["ip"],"affected_description":null,"protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":[],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/580661/nz-authors-among-global-payout-out-after-ai-chatbot-trained-on-pirated-books","publisher":"RNZ","date":"2025-12-03","type":"press","title":"NZ authors among global payout out after AI chatbot trained on pirated books - RNZ","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report"}],"per_field_confidence":{"system.developer":"C","event.incident_class":"C","context.country":"C","impact.harm_class":"C","impact.severity":"D","impact.severity_because":"D","event.primary_risk":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","event.trigger":"D","event.detection_method":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"system.developer":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Anthropic AI has agreed to pay out up to $1.5 billion (NZ$2.6b) to settle claims it used millions of pirated books to train its large language models, in a class action in Californian courts."}],"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Anthropic AI has agreed to pay out up to $1.5 billion (NZ$2.6b) to settle claims it used millions of pirated books to train its large language models, in a class action in Californian courts."}],"context.country":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Anthropic AI has agreed to pay out up to $1.5 billion (NZ$2.6b) to settle claims it used millions of pirated books to train its large language models, in a class action in Californian courts."}],"impact.harm_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Anthropic AI has agreed to pay out up to $1.5 billion (NZ$2.6b) to settle claims it used millions of pirated books to train its large language models, in a class action in Californian courts."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"However the settlement in the US courts decreed that only books registered with the US copyright office were eligible to be part of the settlement."}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"However the settlement in the US courts decreed that only books registered with the US copyright office were eligible to be part of the settlement."}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Anthropic AI has agreed to pay out up to $1.5 billion (NZ$2.6b) to settle claims it used millions of pirated books to train its large language models, in a class action in Californian courts."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"RNZ AI commentator Peter Griffin said the ruling did not counter the use of intellectual property for training AI models without permission."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"He said instead the settlement had pivoted on Anthropic's use of two book pirating websites (Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror) to source the content."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"However the settlement in the US courts decreed that only books registered with the US copyright office were eligible to be part of the settlement."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Award-winning author Catherine Chidgey said she received an email saying her books Remote Sympathy, The Wishchild and The Transformation had been identified as being caught up in the case."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"She said authors were being offered a payment of US$3000 (NZ$5240) for each title accessed by the company."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"My understanding is there was about 7.5 million books in this pirated library and about 1.5 million will be eligible for compensation through this settlement,"}]},"notes_on_gaps":"No model name or version is stated, and no agent was involved as far as the sources say, so event.agent_involved and failure fields are left out. The occurrence, detection and disclosure dates are not stated in any sentence (the article date 2025-12-03 is metadata, not used as a disclosure date). The $1.5 billion is a cap ('up to') on a settlement, not a stated loss, so direct_loss_usd is left out. The number of affected authors is not stated; the 7.5 million and 1.5 million figures are book counts. Root cause, trigger, and controls that held or failed are not stated, so they are omitted. The country is set to US from the court location, a judgement. The severity tier moderate is my judgement: data of others was touched and the scope is bounded by the US registration rule. The settlement amount and per-title payment are press-reported. Remediation: the settlement itself is not a technical change, and the society's advice to register books is not a fix by the implicated party, so none is recorded. 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