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Anthropic Allegedly Copied Copyrighted Song Lyrics Without Permission to Train Claude
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In brief
An AI system built by Large Language Model Developers, Chatbot Developers and 1 other and deployed by Anthropic and Ai Service Providers allegedly harmed Universal Music Group, Songwriters and 9 others.
- Risk domain
- Not classified
- Occurred
- Coverage
- 11 reports
What happened
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.
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News reports (11)
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Who was involved
- Alleged deployer
- Anthropic, Ai Service Providers
- Alleged developer
- Large Language Model Developers, Chatbot Developers, Anthropic
- Alleged harmed party
- 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
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Source record: incident #1657 on the AI Incident Database · all 11 reports