UMG Tells Judge Anthropic AI Training Was Clearly Not Fair Use: ‘The Evidence Is Overwhelming’

UMG Tells Judge Anthropic AI Training Was Clearly Not Fair Use: ‘The Evidence Is Overwhelming’

Universal Music Group (UMG) and other publishers have reached a climactic point in their lawsuit against Anthropic, urging a federal judge to rule that the artificial intelligence giant was not legally allowed to use millions of song lyrics to train its Claude AI model. In a motion filed Tuesday (March 24), the music companies asked the judge to grant them summary judgment (an immediate victory) on the critical question in the case: Whether An…

Claude’s AI lyrics cause market dilution, say music publishers calling for courts to reject fair use defence

The music publishers who are suing Anthropic for copyright infringement have asked the judge overseeing the case to reject the AI company’s fair use defence and rule in their favour. They back up their arguments by citing the judgement in another legal battle between copyright owners and a tech company - the one involving a group of book authors and Meta - even though the judge in that case ultimately sided with Meta and said its AI training was…

Music publishers file for partial summary judgement against Anthropic

AI firm Anthropic is still facing copyright-infringement lawsuits from music publishers… and now the publishers are going in for what they hope will be the legal kill. The publishers, who include various UMG subsidiaries as well as Concord Music Group and ABKCO Music, have filed for partial summary judgement against Anthropic in the case, which […] The post is from Music Ally.

UMG, Concord, and ABKCO file new motion asking judge to rule that Anthropic infringed their copyrights and reject AI ‘fair use’ argument: ‘The evidence in this case is overwhelming.’

Publishers filed motion for partial summary judgment on Monday (March 23) in the Northern District of California Source