The Stanford Daily reports that authors including Tobias Wolff and Chang-rae Lee opted out of the Bartz class settlement and are pursuing separate claims in Cruz against Anthropic’s use of their books. They seek compensation and restrictions on training with their works, but these are requested remedies, not an established outcome. Authors Alliance explains that Bartz distinguished fair use in training from downloading and centrally retaining pirated copies. The settlement neither licenses every future use nor establishes that all AI training is unlawful. The original report’s description of the ruling’s timing conflicts with the earlier legal explanation and is not adopted here.