wave of cases<\/a> brought against tech companies by copyright owners, including authors, publishers, music labels and news outlets, over the use of their work to train artificial intelligence systems. Universal Music Group sued Anthropic in 2023 and this year over the alleged use of copyrighted song lyrics in AI training in lawsuits that are still ongoing.<\/p>\nAnthropic became the first AI company to settle one of the disputes last year when it paid $1.5bn to resolve a class action from a group of authors.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnthropic clearly considers that to be just the cost of doing business given that its entire business model continues to be built on copyright theft,\u201d Sony and Warner said in their complaint. \u201cAnd $1.5bn is obviously not a large enough settlement to deter infringing conduct by a company that has parlayed such mass infringement into a staggering 2-trillion-dollar valuation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the third lawsuit from the same lawyers, recycling allegations from cases already before the courts,\u201d an Anthropic spokesperson said on Monday. The spokesperson also said the company will defend itself \u201crobustly\u201d and AI training makes fair use of copyrighted material, citing the judge in the authors\u2019 case against it.<\/p>\n
Spokespeople and an attorney for Sony Music and Warner Music did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Monday.<\/p>\n
The complaint alleges Anthropic illegally obtained the publishers\u2019 lyrics and sheet music through torrent downloads to train Claude and Claude can reproduce copyrighted lyrics \u201cverbatim\u201d when prompted.<\/p>\n
Sony and Warner also said Anthropic used their lyrics to teach Claude to \u201cgenerate vast quantities of purportedly \u2018new\u2019 AI-generated song lyrics, which compete with Music Publishers\u2019 legitimate copyrighted works as harmful market substitutes\u201d.<\/p>\n
The labels are seeking damages of up to $150,000 for each infringed copyright and a court order barring Anthropic from using their works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthropic pirated hundreds of song lyrics from The Beatles, Taylor Swift, Michael Jackson and other artists, lawsuit says.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1179814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,12633,30,1700,269,12,53,16,15,49,286],"class_list":["post-1179813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business-and-economy","tag-courts","tag-economy","tag-music","tag-news","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1179814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}