AUTHORS & PUBLISHERS
*Class counsel's estimated gross allocation per claimed work, before attorneys' fees, administration costs and any split with another rightsholder. On most trade titles the default split is half to the author and half to the publisher.
As of September 15, 2026, two appeals are pending and both concern the attorneys' fees awarded in the case, not the settlement itself. The Settlement Agreement says an appeal taken solely as to the Fee Award does not push back the Effective Date. In a status report filed with the court on September 2, 2026, class counsel said the first payments are expected to be sent on or before November 15, 2026. That date is not guaranteed. An objector has asked to appeal the settlement itself or to join the pending appeals, and if that request is granted the Effective Date, and with it every distribution, could be postponed indefinitely. Payment also arrives in stages, and a work whose ownership share is disputed can wait longer.
The road to distributions.
The court approved the $1.5 billion settlement on July 20, 2026 and entered judgment. Class counsel was awarded about $101.6 million in fees, well under the $187.5 million requested.
Two notices of appeal to the Ninth Circuit followed: Dkt. 682 on August 18 and Dkt. 683 on August 19, 2026. Both concern the attorneys' fees awarded in the case. The Settlement Agreement excludes an appeal taken solely as to the Fee Award from the Effective Date and says such an appeal does not delay it.
The Settlement Administrator sent every claimant a notice listing their works, the other claimants on each work and the share each one asked for, with 30 days to dispute it. One objector's request to appeal or join the appeals, filed August 31 (Dkt. 687), is unresolved. If it is granted, the distribution date below could be postponed indefinitely.
In a status report filed September 2, 2026 (Dkt. 688), class counsel told the court that the first distribution is expected to be sent on or before November 15, 2026. A work whose ownership share is still disputed can be held back until the Special Master decides it.
Anthropic's final $450 million installment is due by September 25, 2027, with a further, smaller distribution expected after it lands. Dates and amounts stay estimates until the Settlement Administrator pays.
If you filed a valid claim, the Settlement Administrator will pay you at no cost. Selling is optional: a fixed amount now instead of the settlement's schedule, and it is permanent. See how it works below.
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Submit your PDF claim form and we'll check the works on it against the settlement's Works List and our purchase criteria.
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Review and sign our standard agreement to transfer your claim.
Join a 15 minute video closing call. Payment follows signing and identity verification, and we confirm the expected timing with your offer.
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Turnpage Digital Markets LLC is an independent buyer of claims. We are not affiliated with the Court, class counsel, the Settlement Administrator or Anthropic, and we are not a law firm. If you filed a valid claim, the Settlement Administrator will pay you at no cost and you do not need a third party to be paid. Free help with your claim is available from the Settlement Administrator at 1-877-206-2314, and from class counsel.
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Any holder of a valid claim in Bartz, et al. v. Anthropic PBC, No. 3:24-cv-05417 (N.D. Cal.) who timely submitted a Claim Form by the March 30, 2026 deadline and has not already sold or assigned that claim. Both authors and publishers are eligible. Because a single book often has more than one rightsholder, you may hold a partial interest in a work alongside a co-author, an estate, or your publisher, and you can sell your share of that work. If you excluded yourself from the class, you are not a class member and have nothing to sell in this settlement. If you never filed a Claim Form, the claim window has closed and cannot be reopened.
No. You keep your copyright. You are selling one thing only: the right to receive the money the Settlement Administrator will distribute on your allowed claim. Turnpage purchases that right in a true sale. It is not a loan, an advance, or litigation funding. You are also not selling any claim the settlement did not release. The Bartz release covers Anthropic's past acquisition and copying of your works, the input side, through August 25, 2025. Claims based on AI outputs were not released, and neither were your claims against any other AI developer. If you are watching the cases against OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, or Google, selling your Anthropic distribution does not touch those.
The court granted final approval and entered judgment on July 20, 2026. Under the Settlement Agreement, distributions begin one business day after the Effective Date, which is keyed to the expiration of the time to appeal the final judgment. Two notices of appeal to the Ninth Circuit followed, Dkt. 682 on August 18, 2026 and Dkt. 683 on August 19, 2026, and both concern the attorneys' fees awarded in the case rather than the settlement itself. The Settlement Agreement was drafted for exactly that situation: section 1.15(b) excludes an appeal taken solely as to the Fee Award from the events that push back the Effective Date, and section 8.4 provides that such an appeal does not delay it. In a status report filed on September 2, 2026 (Dkt. 688), class counsel told the court that the first distribution is expected to be sent to class members on or before November 15, 2026, with a further payment after Anthropic's final $450 million installment, which is due by September 25, 2027. As of September 15, 2026, two things are genuinely unresolved: an objector's request to appeal or to join the appeals, filed August 31, 2026 (Dkt. 687), has not been decided — and if it is granted, the Effective Date and every distribution that follows it could be postponed indefinitely — and a work whose ownership shares are disputed can be held back from a distribution until the Special Master resolves it. The honest case for selling is therefore narrower than it was earlier in the year. It is not that the money is years away; it is that the settlement pays in stages, that timing and amounts can still move, and that a sale converts that into a fixed amount now, with the buyer carrying the wait and the risk from then on.
Class counsel has estimated a gross allocation of roughly $3,100 per eligible claimed work, before attorneys' fees (the court awarded approximately $101.6 million), expenses, service awards, and administration costs are deducted, and before any split with a co-rightsholder. Under the settlement's default allocation for trade and university press books, an author and publisher each take half of the per-work award, so a single-title author's realistic gross is often closer to half the headline number (~$1,500). We price against that figure and then discount for time value, appeal risk, whether your claimed percentage is agreed or contested, documentation quality, the size of your portfolio, and your jurisdiction. One factor cuts against a large surprise upside on recoveries: about 92.77 percent of the 482,460 works on the Works List were claimed, against a typical class action claim rate near 10 percent, so there is very little unclaimed money left to redistribute.
In an outright sale, the buyer bears the risk. Once the purchase price is paid and the assignment is complete, the buyer owns the payment stream and absorbs the delay, the discount, and the outcome. The exception is the promises you make in the purchase agreement itself: that the claim is yours, that you have not already sold, assigned or pledged it, and that what you have told us about it is accurate.
Yes, but you can only sell your own share. In September 2026 the Settlement Administrator sent claimants a notice, and opened a portal, showing for each work the title, its copyright registration number, the names of the other claimants, and the percentage each has claimed, with 30 days from the date on the notice to respond. Where every claimant's percentage lines up, the administrator can pay out. Where the percentages conflict, the dispute goes to the Special Master appointed by the court; those submissions are confidential and under seal, and the Special Master's decisions are final. An unresolved split will either reduce your price or delay the trade. For this reason we are only purchasing self-published works, works for hire and single author/single publisher works.
Generally, yes. Selling a claim or an interest in a judgment or settlement is a well-established transaction, and institutional buyers have purchased billions of dollars of bankruptcy, class action, and litigation claims for decades. State law varies, and a small number of states have champerty, maintenance, or assignment doctrines that could be read to restrict or invalidate a sale; we are not active in those states. This is general information about how these transactions work, not legal advice about your claim, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. If the answer matters to your decision, ask your own lawyer or class counsel.
We do not provide tax guidance. For tax questions, you should speak with a competent advisor of your choosing. THE TAX CONSEQUENCES OF ANY AGREEMENT YOU SIGN REGARDING YOUR CLAIM MAY VARY DEPENDING ON THE SPECIFIC TERMS OF THAT AGREEMENT. UNDER CERTAIN TRANSACTION STRUCTURES, YOU MAY BE REQUIRED TO PAY INCOME TAX ON THE FULL AMOUNT OF THE PAYMENTS YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN ENTITLED TO RECEIVE UNDER THE SETTLEMENT, EVEN IF THE RESULTING TAX LIABILITY EXCEEDS WHAT YOU ACTUALLY RECEIVED. A TRANSACTION STRUCTURED AS AN OUTRIGHT OR TRUE SALE MAY INSTEAD REMOVE THE FUTURE SETTLEMENT PAYMENTS FROM YOUR GROSS INCOME, IN WHICH CASE YOU WOULD LIKELY BE TAXED ON THE PURCHASE PRICE YOU RECEIVE. AS A RESULT OF A SALE, YOU WOULD ALSO FORFEIT ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO ADDITIONAL OR FUTURE PAYMENTS UNDER THE SETTLEMENT. Also worth raising with your advisor: whether the proceeds are ordinary income or capital gain in your circumstances, how the payment is reported to you and to the IRS, and, if you are a non-U.S. author or publisher, withholding and treaty questions.
Have ready your claim confirmation or claimant ID from JND Legal Administration; the titles at issue and, where available, copyright registration numbers; government-issued photo ID (two forms preferred) and two recent proofs of address; a completed W-9, or W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E if you are outside the United States; formation documents and evidence of signing authority if you are a publisher or other entity; and documentation of your authority over the work if you are an estate, trust, or agent. The process runs in five steps: we verify your claim and your claimed percentage; you receive an offer with no obligation to accept; you review the purchase agreement and assignment; the assignment and payment direction are executed and recorded with the Settlement Administrator; and the purchase price is wired to you.
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