** Britain's Bloomsbury Publishing BLPU.L shares up 1.9% at 654p

** Co among beneficiaries of a $1.5 billion settlement that resolves claims Anthropic used copyrighted books to train its AI models without purchasing the content

** U.S. court identifies 14,087 of Bloomsbury's titles covered by settlement, with proposed compensation of about $3,000 per title, split equally between the author and publisher

** Co says settlement proceeds to be spread over several payments estimated to begin in H2 FY27

** YTD, stock up 37.7% including session gains