The legal team in the Bartz v. Anthropic case was a coalition of three law firms, funded on a contingency fee basis, which ended up earning them $187 million (12.5%).

Other copyright lawsuits against other major companies are happening.

If a similar lawsuit costs OpenAI more than 1.5B then perhaps Anthropic is better off in their competitive race?

> the people who came forward to sue are mostly in the category of book publishers/authors

Irrelevant. The financially savvy parties are the lawfirm L.L.P.s trying to win money for themselves.