Music publishers sue Amazon-backed AI company over song lyrics
by Blake Montgomery and agencies from Technology | The Guardian on (#6FQ42)
The music publishers' lawsuit appears to be the first copyright case over AI's use of song lyrics
Music publishers Universal Music, ABKCO and Concord Publishing sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in Tennessee federal court on Wednesday, accusing it of misusing innumerable" copyrighted song lyrics to train its chatbot Claude.
The lawsuit said Anthropic violates the publishers' rights through its use of lyrics from at least 500 songs ranging from the Beach Boys' God Only Knows and the Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter to Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' Uptown Funk and Beyonce's Halo.
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