Summary
Several large music publishers sued Anthropic for direct and secondary copyright infringement and DMCA § 1202(b) violations, alleging that Anthropic improperly (1) created and used unauthorized copies of copyrighted lyrics to train Claude, its generative AI product; and (2) copied, distributed, and publicly displayed those lyrics through Claude’s outputs without their copyright management information (CMI).
Plaintiffs also filed a motion for a preliminary injunction that would require Anthropic to implement effective guardrails in its Claude AI models to prevent outputs that infringe plaintiffs’ copyrighted lyrics and preclude Anthropic from creating or using unauthorized copies of those lyrics to train future AI models.
What We’re Watching
We are waiting for the court’s rulings on Anthropic’s motion to dismiss and on the remaining portions of plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary injunction.