Context: Last August, book authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson filed a copyright infringement class action against Claude AI maker Anthropic in the Northern District of California (August 20, 2024 ai fray article). In April, Anthropic filed its opposition to the class certification motion, arguing that a copyright class relating to 5 million books is not manageable and that the questions are too distinct to be resolved in a class action. As part of that argument, Anthr...