A $1.5 billion payout was supposed to bring some closure to one of the biggest copyright fights of the AI era. Instead, it’s turning into a mess of competing claims, confused paperwork and angry authors demanding to know who actually owns their books. The Authors Guild Anthropic settlement, hailed months ago as a landmark win for writers, is now exposing just how tangled the business of publishing rights has become — and how unprepared the industry was to divide the money fairly.