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Anthropic's reply: opt-out authors' claims are too late, eight works were released in Bartz, and the complaint describes what BitTorrent can do, not what Anthropic did

Anthropic filed its reply in support of its motion to dismiss the amended complaint of the 102 authors who opted out of the Bartz settlement. It argues that eight works appear on the Bartz Works List but not on the court-approved opt-out list, so any relief on them must come from the Bartz court. It says 67 works are registered to someone else, that three plaintiffs have withdrawn part of their claims for that reason, and that the plaintiffs must plead how they came to own the rest and identify absent owners so they get notice. On timing, it argues the plaintiffs do not dispute that the claims are late if the clock runs from the injury, that one sentence invoking the discovery rule for 875 works is not enough, and that the Bartz class action did not pause the clock for the distribution and central-library theories because the Bartz complaint did not assert them. On distribution, it argues the complaint identifies "no work, no recipient, and no completed transfer," that any upload was automatic and triggered by third parties, and that at most pieces of files were sent. It asks for dismissal, mostly with leave to amend. These are Anthropic's arguments; the court has not ruled.