Anthropic Used ‘Human Acts’ and 21 Other Books by Han Kang Without Permission; Authors Could Receive $4,350 per Work
U.S. court recognizes copyright infringement involving 500,000 works; settlement worth about $2 trillion won paves way for compensation, as the Literature Translation Institute of Korea begins helping affected authors
Global AI firms’ voracious appetite for data puts K-literature in the spotlight It has been confirmed that U.S. artificial intelligence company Anthropic used English-language editions of works by leading Korean authors, including Han Kang, Hwang Sok-yong and Kim Young-ha, without permission to...