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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

So the work that the Anthropic settlement people split 25%/25% with 50% into the ether has now completely vanished from my portal. Why.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

Why? Because (a) it will be a complwte and utter disaster and (b) they will have to pay authors the last half billion they haven’t put in

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 19/09/2026

Authorities also issued warnings for Jeddah and Yanbu, a major industrial port and home to vital oil facilities

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Thick smoke seen near Riyadh airport after air-raid alerts in Saudi capital

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/09/2026

I have seen a couple people suggest in the Anthropic settlement that you should try to get the publisher’s share back from the publisher once it has been sent through one mechanism or another, and I feel it incumbent upon me to remind everyone.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/09/2026

This is a serious bug that happened because apparently nobody talked to authors doing anything remotely interesting in publishing. Please make sure that everyone in self-publishing spaces knows about this.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/09/2026

Authors who are members of the class in the Anthropic Settlement, please be aware that if you have a work in the settlement which has multiple authors but is self-published (or the rights have reverted), the settlement allocation is buggy. Explanation below

The Anthropic settlement allocation is buggy for self publishers with multiple authors

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/09/2026

The argument I would make would be that an infringement action is not a sale or a license, and so "royalty" is not analogous. And I would argue that in the absence of any explicit term in the contract, the parties should be bound by what is otherwise the industry standard: 50/50.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/09/2026

So if I were an author, and my contract did not contain an explicit split for infringement actions, I would absolutely dispute a publisher who claimed, based on royalty numbers, that I was only eligible for 12%.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/09/2026

I keep seeing people say "this is similar to a subsidiary right" about the Anthropic settlement, and it is not.

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Shelley @shelleyjust.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

@courtneymilan.com Correcting reply to you. I rec'd email from claims admin. Contrary to what the support person said, there is NO email verification of the allocation submission. We just keep a copy of the "success" page. Adj are made when 'all required submissions are received' and reviewed.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 05/09/2026

Also, I want to say this: just because the settlement administration THINKS something should be a certain way doesn't mean it HAS TO BE that way. You can always ask the special master for a ruling. The settlement administrator HAS to allow you to do that.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 05/09/2026

The thing is, they may not realise how many of the people affected are romance authors, and relatedly that we have a paramilitary wing.

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WriterDeanna @deannachase.com · 04/09/2026

So, here's a weird thing about the Anthropic review emails. They are sending out different versions. I got one that asks me to request to see my claim summery. My husband got one that just gives him a link and a login code. Why the difference? And why do I have to ask to see mine?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/09/2026

Thinking about how, when designating a single class for this lawsuit, the parties told the judge that authors were generally working with publishers as partners and so there was unlikely to be significant disagreement over percentages. And I was like "lol. lmao."

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/09/2026

Anthropic was extremely fucking dumb, is what I'm saying.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 04/09/2026

If your agent is doing this, they are not in any way operating with your best interests at heart and you need a different agent.

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Shelley @shelleyjust.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I cannot tell you how much I agree with this. The class lawyers and JND don't give a crap, because they get paid right from the start. They made a mess and told us to sort it out.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/09/2026

Also, it appears that the settlement folks are having persistent errors with self-published works with more than one author. They can understand that a self-published work with one author = 100% payout to author.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/09/2026

Hey, anyone published by Pearson Education and in the Anthropic settlement, can you answer this?

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 03/09/2026

I know I already posted about this...but to reiterate: Anthropic copyright settlement authors, PLEASE contact me (Writer Beware) if your publisher is making a claim on a book whose rights have reverted, or claiming anything other than a 50/50 split on an in-contract book. beware@sfwa.org

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/09/2026

This is so disgusting. Scapegoating vulnerable minorities that have absolutely nothing to do with this guy’s clear and brazen wrong doing.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/09/2026

Hi! Anthropic Q&A re:rights reversion and publisher claims. This is not legal advice; I can't give you legal advice. What I can do is tell you what I would do under certain circumstances.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/09/2026

Okay, class counsel in Anthropic JUST filed a status report--it hasn't shown up on CourtListener yet, and PACER is being rude to me right now, but @deannachase.com sent it to me because she is absolutely lovely. I'm reading it now.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/09/2026

PLEASE DO NOT TIMELY FILE PLEASE DO NOT TIMELY FILE AND PLEASE DO NOT FIND ANY FORM OF MERCY ON TIME, SHE TELLS YOU SHE IS A LAWYER, SHE DOESN'T DESERVE IT

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Shelley @shelleyjust.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

@courtneymilan.com Just got an email from the settlement group, because of conflict of allocation. On two of my books, people I have never heard of put in claims. It's an unholy mess.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/09/2026

It has been more than a week since I was told that class counsel was planning on filing a report/request for approval "within the next week," so I am following up and asking what the timeline is for class counsel actually filing that report.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 31/08/2026

I will put my faith in a community that gives a shit about its members out here on the surface versus these assholes and their fancy underground pools.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 29/08/2026

National Park Service, which backs the 250ft arch, says it is likely to disrupt historical significance of dozens of sites

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Trump arch will alter sightlines of many Washington DC landmarks, report says

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Nice try FAKE NEWS LIBS, true American patriots should just take the river that's sitting right there

A map going up from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, nothing could possibly go wrong with this route

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

GOD: Strike down a famous 80-year-old American, you know the one. ANGEL: Done. GOD: Not her! I want that guy who — let’s just he was in “Home Alone 2.” ANGEL: Ok, here’s Tim Curry. GOD: ANGEL: GOD:

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oh come on 2026 stop 2026ing

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/08/2026

So we have this, which is basically a statement that they're gonna talk to the judge and everyone else about this. In limbo until then. Wheee.

Hi Heidi, Thank you for your email. Class Counsel have been conferring with Anthropic on these issues and are also planning an update of the Settlement Website (which updating will need Court approval). Class Counsel are planning on filing a
report/request for approval with the Court within the next week.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/08/2026

Many might not call him a queer icon, but he would probably be the first to tell you that he's been very good to the gay community, the best, actually, and I think Death should take him at his word.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/08/2026

Look if you have to take 80 year olds, I'm gonna have some suggestions for you.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is a lovely thread about Dolly Parton (and the bot or person who prepared this trending list is on a first-name basis with its author)

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1. Gillian shares viral Dolly thread
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/08/2026

I have sent the following questions via email to the settlement adminstration and have been told this will get it escalated to the appropriate person. I deleted some stuff in the beginning of the email identifying myself as a class member just b/c I'm not trying to make it a matter of record.

Thave a few questions about the settlement as it stands.
1. Is the Effective Date of the settlement August 20th, 2026?
Further explanation: The settlement documents provide this: "Effective Date" means one business day following the later of: (a) the date upon which the time expires for filing or noticing any appeal of the Final Judgment; (b) if there is an appeal or appeals (other than ones solely with respect to the Fee Award and/or service awards), the date of completion, in a manner that finally affirms and leaves in place the Final Judgment without any material modification, of all proceedings arising out of the appeals) (including, but not limited to, the expiration of all deadlines for motions for reconsideration or petitions for review and/or certiorari, all proceedings ordered on remand, and all proceedings arising out of any subsequent appeals) following decisions on remand); or (c) the date of final dismissal of any appeal or the final
dismissal of any proceeding on certiorari with respect to the Final Judgment. The time for appeals is now over. While there are appeals pending, those appeals explicitly state that they are solely with respect to the fee awards (and the parties appealing have no standing to appeal anything other than the fee awards). Thus, the only appeals are solely with respect to the fee award, and
a final judgment on the merits as to Anthropic has been left in place without material modification.
Please let me know if this is not the case, and if so, what the basis is for stating that the Effective Date is something other than August 20th.

2. Has Anthropic now paid $1.05 billion into the settlement fund?
Per the settlement documents, Anthropic must make four installment payments to the settlement.
* $300,000,000: within five days of Preliminary Approval. This has already passed.
(i) $300,000,000: within five days of Final Approval. This has also already passed.
(iii) $450,000,000: within 12 months of Preliminary Approval (which has not passed) OR within thirty days of the later of Final Approval OR a Qualified
Financing Event. Anthropic raised $30 billion in Series G funding in February of 2026, and so the latter condition has been met. We are now more than 30 days after Final
Approval. (iv) $450,000,000: I am pretty sure that Anthropic's series H funding does NOT meet the requirement of a Qualified Financing Event because it was not
subsequent to Scheduled Payment 1, and so this amount has not yet been paid in.
By my calculations, Anthropic should have paid $1.05 billion into the Settlement Fund.
Has this happened?

3. If the Effective Date is August 20th, 2026, should we expect the first payment, distributing the amount received to date from Anthropic, within 28 days of
the Effective Date, which would be on or around September 17, 2026?
The settlement documents state: Disbursement of Cash Payments from Settlement Fund. Within twenty-eight (28) days of the Effective Date, or such other subsequent date or dates as the Court may set or Class Counsel shall determine, the Settlement Administrator shall send Settlement Payments from the
Settlement Fund to Class Members.
Please let me know if there will be a different date than September 17, 2026, and if so, what that date will be.
4. Will the fees and costs allowed by the judge be removed in their entirety from that first payment, or will a pro rata portion be taken from each payment?
5. Do the settlement administrators plan to hold back a portion of the fees disputed on appeal from that first payment?
Thank you so much for your time.
Sincerely,
Heidi S. Bond

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