Incident #1657
Anthropic Allegedly Copied Copyrighted Song Lyrics Without Permission to Train Claude
Description
Music publishers alleged that Anthropic copied copyrighted song lyrics without permission to train Claude and that Claude reproduced protected lyrics in its outputs. Anthropic denied infringement and has argued that its training use is fair use. Publishers alleged that the conduct deprived rightsholders and songwriters of licensing control and revenue and undermined markets for licensed lyrics.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- anthropic
- ai-service-providers
Alleged Developers
- large-language-model-developers
- chatbot-developers
- anthropic
Harmed Parties
- universal-music-group
- songwriters
- round-hill-music
- publishers
- musicians
- music-publishers
- intellectual-property-rights-holders
- copyright-holders
- concord-music-group
- bmg-rights-management
- abkco-music