Anthropic faces its next fair use test over song lyrics

Judge Eumi Lee hears Anthropic's defense against UMG, Concord and ABKCO over lyrics used to train Claude Two federal judges in California have already tackled whether training AI on copyrighted work is fair use, and they didn't fully agree. On Wednesday, US District Judge Eumi Lee in San Jose hears from Anthropic and the music publishers suing it in a case that could shape the answer. In a filing from March, they claimed the usage is not fair as Claude can create new lyrics to dilute the market for their catalogues. Moreover, they claimed that songs generated through AI are flooding streaming platforms and even topping the Billboard charts.

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