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The lawsuit – filed in a Nashville court on Wednesday (October 18) by UMG’s publishing company Universal Music Publishing Group, along with co-plaintiffs Concord Music Group and ABKCO – seeks potentially tens of millions of dollars in damages from Anthropic and its AI assistant service Claude (per Music Business Worldwide)It claims that, “in the process of building and operating AI models, Anthropic unlawfully copies and disseminates vast amounts of copyrighted works — including the lyrics to myriad musical compositions owned or controlled by Publishers”.“Publishers embrace innovation and recognise the great promise of AI when used ethically and responsibly,” the suit continued. “But Anthropic violates these principles on a systematic and widespread basis.
Anthropic must abide by well-established copyright laws, just as countless other technology companies regularly do.”The three publishing groups highlighted several instances in which Claude had allegedly infringed their works. They asked Claude to provide lyrics to songs such as Katy Perry‘s ‘Roar’ (owned by Conord), the service provided all of lyrics to the track.
Other songs named in the suit – which the service did the same thing for – include Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” (owned by Universal), and The Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” (owned by Abkco.)Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord Music Group and ABKCO’s claims include direct copyright infringement, contributory infringement, vicarious infringement, and removal or alteration of copyright management information. The are seeking roughly $150,000 (£123,000) per work infringed.Matthew J.
Music mogul L.A. Reid has been accused of sexual assault and retaliatory behavior by a former executive who worked with him at Arista.
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Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Three major music publishers, Universal, Concord and ABKCO, filed a complaint against the new AI company Anthropic for copyright violations, according to legal documents obtained Wednesday by Variety. The legal issues stem from Anthropic’s series of AI models referred to as Claude, and is the latest move in the music industry’s efforts to stave off what it perceives as a massive copyright threat from AI developers. “Publishers bring this action to address the systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics by the artificial intelligence (“AI”) company Anthropic,” the complaint reads.
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