News Piracy claims can’t be added to music publishers’ copyright case against Anthropic, says Judge US District Judge Eumi Lee found denies amendment to complaint
News Anthropic must face music publishers’ copyright claims after Judge denies dismissal motion A US district judge ruled that UMG, Concord Music and ABKCO can press forward with claims that Anthropic bears responsibility when Claude users generate copyrighted lyrics.
News Record labels could strike ‘landmark’ AI music licensing deals ‘within weeks,’ the FT reports Universal and Warner are reportedly nearing licensing deals with AI music companies, the FT reports
News Anthropic to pay authors $1.5bn to settle lawsuit over using pirated books to train AI Anthropic agreed to pay $3,000 per work to a settlement fund that is expected to cover roughly 500,000 titles.
News Anthropic’s value balloons to $183bn after securing $13bn in latest funding round Anthropic’s valuation has grown from $61.5 billion following a $3.5 billion funding round in March.
News Anthropic settles authors’ lawsuit over pirated books… and it could be a gift for Universal Music Group’s lawyers US District Judge William Alsup ordered the parties to seek preliminary approval of their settlement by September 5.
News Music publishers allege Anthropic used BitTorrent to pirate copyrighted lyrics Anthropic may face a new allegation from music companies: That it not only downloaded, but distributed lyrics without permission
News Anthropic faces setback in authors’ lawsuit ahead of UMG copyright battle: ‘If Anthropic loses big it will be because what it did was also big.’ A judge's rejection of stay request in Anthropic’s book piracy case sets precedent as the company faces a similar lawsuit against record labels.
News Anthropic beefs up legal team ahead of showdown with Universal Music Group (report) A blog called chatgptiseatingtheworld.com said the judge’s recent decision sets the stage for larger damages in Anthropic’s two legal cases.
News Meta rejects EU’s AI Code of Practice, even as AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI say they will sign on The EU's Code of Practice restricts how tech companies can collect copyrighted content to train their AI
News AI companies accused of ‘largest domestic piracy of IP in our nation’s history’ at congressional hearing led by MAGA Republican At Meta, 'Mark Zuckerberg himself made the call' to pirate vast amounts of copyrighted material
News Court rules Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train AI is ‘fair use’ – but it may not have much bearing on music rightsholders’ case against platform’s Claude Copyright owners can't prevent their works for being used for training, a California judge has ruled, but using pirated copies is another story
News Anthropic lawyers apologize to court over AI ‘hallucination’ in copyright battle with music publishers Anthropic's lawyers say the Claude chatbot didn't invent a research paper out of thin air, but it did mis-name the paper and its authors
News Did Anthropic’s own AI generate a ‘hallucination’ in legal defense against song lyrics copyright case? Anthropic ordered to respond to claims that a data scientist it employed relied on a fictitious academic article
News Music publishers file amended lawsuit against AI firm Anthropic, which they say ‘bolsters the case’ over company’s ‘unauthorized use of song lyrics’ Music publishers have refiled their legal complaint against Anthropic, and the AI company has once again moved to have the case dismissed