Blake Brittain, Reuters; Anthropic seeks pivotal court win in music publisher lawsuit over AI training
"Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has asked a California federal court to rule in its favor in a copyright lawsuit brought by music publishers Universal Music Group, Concord and ABKCO, arguing it made "fair use" of their song lyrics to train its AI-powered chatbot Claude.
Anthropic's Monday filing addresses the key question for a wave of high-stakes copyright cases brought by creators against tech companies: is it legally permissible to copy millions of copyrighted works without permission to train AI models?...
The lawsuit is one of dozens of disputes between copyright owners such as authors and news outlets, and tech giants including OpenAI, Microsoft and Meta Platforms over the training of their AI systems. Amazon- and Google-backed Anthropic was the first major AI company to settle one of the cases, agreeing last yearto pay a group of authors $1.5 billion to resolve a class-action lawsuit."
