Anthropic fires back at music publishers' AI copyright lawsuit
Anthropic has asked a Tennessee federal court to reject an early bid by three music publishers to stop it from using and reproducing their song lyrics through its chatbot Claude.
Anthropic told the court on Tuesday that Universal Music, ABKCO and Concord Music Group could not prove they were being irreparably harmed. It also argued that the publishers had brought their lawsuit against the company in the wrong court.
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Representatives for Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the filing.
Many copyright owners including authors, visual artists and the New York Times have sued tech companies such as Meta Platforms and Microsoft-backed OpenAI over the use of their work to train generative-AI systems.
The music publishers' lawsuit, filed last October, appears to be the first over song lyrics and the first against Anthropic, which has drawn financial backing from Google, Amazon and former cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried.
The complaint accused Anthropic of infringing the publishers' copyrights in lyrics from at least 500 songs by musicians including Beyonce, the Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys. The publishers claim Anthropic misused the lyrics as part of the «massive amounts of text» that it scrapes from the internet to train Claude to respond to human prompts.
The publishers asked
