Antropic has announced that it will actively respond to copyright infringement claims from global record labels. Major record labels such as Universal Music, Capital, and Concord have filed injunction lawsuits against Antropic, claiming that they used their song lyrics without permission to train the AI model ‘Claude’.
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Judge Yumi K. Lee of the U.S. District Court for the District of California signed the agreement reached between Anthropic and the record labels on the 2nd (local time). Under the agreement, Anthropic must maintain existing protections to prevent Claude from publishing copyrighted song lyrics or creating new lyrics based on them. This is not much different from Anthropic’s existing policy.
Antropic promised to respond quickly to labels’ complaints and investigate if these safeguards fail to work. In a statement, it also stressed that “Claude has multiple processes in place to prevent copyright infringement,” but added that it “looks forward to demonstrating that the use of copyrighted material to train generative AI models constitutes fair use.”
The dispute began in October 2023, when the labels filed an injunction against Antropic, claiming that the labels had used lyrics from 500 songs by artists including Katy Perry, Beyoncé, and the Rolling Stones to train their AI without permission. This is notable as the first lawsuit filed by labels against an AI company.
The lawsuit is ongoing, and the court is expected to decide in the coming months whether to grant an injunction to prohibit Antropic from using the labels’ lyrics to train future AI models.
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