The owners of songs made famous by Elvis Presley are suing Anthropic, the company behind the AI chatbot Claude. Their complaint alleges that Anthropic copied the lyrics of 274 songs recorded by Presley to train its AI models, without a license or payment. It also alleges that Claude generates copies of those lyrics, and new … Continued
The latest filing draws heavily on Anthropic's internal records, obtained through discovery, to support claims the publishers first brought in October 2023.
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.