Music Publishers Say Anthropic Likely Used Pirated Songbooks of Ariana Grande & More for AI Training

Music Publishers Say Anthropic Likely Used Pirated Songbooks of Ariana Grande & More for AI Training

The group of music publishers bringing a landmark copyright infringement lawsuit against Anthropic say they’ve recently learned that the artificial intelligence giant illegally downloaded sheet music from online pirate libraries for its training models. The publishers — including Universal Music Group (UMG), Concord and ABKCO — raised the issue in a Monday (Aug. 11) motion to amend their 2023 lawsuit against Anthropic. The case centers on clai…

Music publishers want to amend Anthropic lawsuit because of pirated lyrics

The music publishers suing AI company Anthropic have asked if they can amend their lawsuit in response to the recent ruling in another case involving Anthropic and a group of authors. The music companies want to highlight that Anthropic originally downloaded their lyrics from dodgy piracy sites, something they discovered via the other case, and which has become super relevant because of the judge’s ruling in that other dispute. In a new court fi…

BitTorrent downloads may be factor in Anthropic music lawsuit

Music publishers have received a couple of knockbacks in their lawsuit against AI company Anthropic, but now there’s better news. The post is from Music Ally.