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Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is asking federal court to dismiss key portions of a copyright lawsuit brought by Concord, Universal Music Group, ABKCO, and other music publishers over the alleged use of copyrighted song lyrics to train its AI chatbot, Claude.<\/p>\n
The publishers filed the lawsuit in 2025, claiming Anthropic copied and stored thousands of copyrighted lyrics without permission while developing its large language models. They argue the company infringed protected musical works and should have obtained licenses before using them for AI training.<\/p>\n
Anthropic disagrees. In a newly filed motion, the company argues that several of the publishers\u2019 claims fall short as a matter of law. Specifically, it is asking the court to dismiss allegations involving contributory and vicarious copyright infringement, arguing the complaint does not adequately support those theories.<\/p>\n
If the court grants the motion, it would narrow the scope of the lawsuit rather than end it entirely. The publishers\u2019 primary copyright infringement claims would still move forward.<\/p>\n
A Court Battle That Could Shape AI Music<\/p>\n
The dispute has become one of the music industry\u2019s most closely watched legal battles over artificial intelligence. At its core is a question that could reshape how AI companies develop future models: Can developers use copyrighted creative works to train AI systems without first obtaining permission from rights holders?<\/p>\n
Music publishers argue the answer is no. They contend AI companies should negotiate licenses before incorporating copyrighted lyrics into commercial models. Anthropic has taken the opposite position. The company argues that training AI models may qualify as fair use under U.S. copyright law, an issue that several federal courts are now considering in separate cases.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit also arrives as legal scrutiny surrounding generative AI continues to intensify. Anthropic recently resolved a separate copyright dispute involving book authors through a proposed multibillion-dollar settlement. However, that agreement did not include music publishers, leaving the fight over song lyrics and musical compositions unresolved.<\/p>\n
For the music industry, the outcome could extend far beyond Anthropic. A ruling on the scope of copyright protection for AI training may influence future licensing agreements, negotiations between technology companies and rights holders, and how generative AI models are built in the years ahead.<\/p>\n
The court has not yet ruled on Anthropic\u2019s motion to dismiss. For now, the case remains one of several lawsuits that could define the relationship between artificial intelligence and copyrighted music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is asking federal court to dismiss key portions of a copyright lawsuit brought by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24,53,3236,7412,66139,66140,16526,9204,31635],"class_list":["post-133047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-claude-ai","tag-copyright","tag-edm","tag-kevin","tag-music-industry","tag-music-news","tag-universal-music-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}