Summary
Music publishers including Concord Music Group, Universal Music Group, and ABKCO Music sued Anthropic PBC, alleging it trained its Claude AI on their copyrighted song lyrics without permission and that Claude outputs infringing reproductions of those lyrics when prompted by users[1][2][3]. The suit asserts direct and secondary copyright infringement under the Copyright Act plus removal of copyright management information under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee denied Anthropic's motion to dismiss the amended contributory and vicarious infringement claims plus the CMI claim[1][7]. Publishers sought a preliminary injunction to halt training on their works and require maintenance of anti-infringement guardrails, with the latter
Case details
- Court
- tnmd
- Docket number
- 3:23-cv-01092
- Filed
- Oct 18, 2023
- Status
- Active
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