It looks like the judge and lawyers for the class Action and Anthropic wanted an expedient solution. Some expect the class action lawyers to take 25% of the 1.5bn USD compensation.
I can pursue my own case for my work that was downloaded, but they know that's unrealistic ☹️
From the FAQ https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/faq
"Even though Anthropic downloaded approximately 7 million files from LibGen and PiLiMi, many of those files were duplicates of works, or unregistered works, or were empty, corrupted, or incomplete files.
About 40% of the files Anthropic downloaded (approximately 3 million) were duplicates. Duplicate copies are not eligible to be in the Works List.
Likewise, works not validly registered with the U.S. Copyright Office are not eligible to be in the Works List. Many of the works Anthropic downloaded were not registered. For example, non-English works have very low registration rates. Of the approximately 4 million unique works that Anthropic downloaded, around 2.5 million were written in languages other than English. Most of those 2.5 million non-English works were unregistered. In addition, many of the 1.5 million unique English works were not registered. And even among registered works, many failed to satisfy the date criteria in the Class definition, because registration occurred more than five years after publication or after Anthropic downloaded such works.
Finally, many works failed validation tests. For example, the Works List does not include files that were empty, corrupted, or incomplete."