AI Copyright

AI company Anthropic has scored a preliminary legal victory in a copyright dispute with several music publishers. A U.S. federal judge declined to issue a preliminary injunction that would have restricted Anthropic's use of copyrighted lyrics for AI training. According to Reuters, U.S. District Judge Eumi Lee ruled that Universal Music Group's (UMG), Concord's, and ABKCO's requests were overly broad, and that the publishers failed to prove that Anthropic's use of the lyrics caused them "irreparable harm". ...

Anthropic, a major generative AI startup, has filed a defense against copyright infringement claims brought against it by a group of music publishers and content owners. In a new court filing Wednesday, Anthropic detailed why the group’s claims are invalid. In the fall of 2023, music publishers including Concord, Universal, and ABKCO filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging copyright infringement through its chatbot Claude (now replaced by Claude2). …