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
News Music publishers ‘remain very confident’ of winning Anthropic case and will ‘vigorously pursue’ monetary damages 'This case remains vital to protecting creators from the wholesale theft of their copyrighted works by Anthropic and other AI companies.'
News AI unicorn Anthropic raises another $3.5bn, boosting valuation to $61.5bn The Series E round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, also an investor in Stability AI and AI music generator Suno
News $500m-valued Suno has admitted training AI on copyrighted music. That hasn’t stopped Amazon from adding its controversial tech to Alexa The new voice assistant is also integrated with the Claude chatbot from Anthropic, an AI company facing a copyright lawsuit from music publishers
News Universal Music, Concord Music, ABKCO welcome court-approved ‘guardrails’ in Anthropic AI dispute – as legal battle continues Measures require Anthropic to maintain various protective controls in its current AI models and implement similar safeguards in future offerings
News Anthropic lands another $4bn investment from Amazon, amid ongoing copyright battle with Universal, Concord and ABKCO Anthropic is embroiled in a copyright lawsuit alleging its Claude chatbot regurgitates copyrighted, sometimes without being asked
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