Elvis Presley catalogue owners take legal action against Anthropic for copyright infringement

Elvis Prelsy catalogue owners accuse Anthropic of training its AI on the singer's music sans permission Anthropic allegedly used Elvis Presley music to train its AI models, the owners of the pop icon's music catalogue alleged, and they have taken legal action. According to the lawsuit, the Authentic Brands Group filed - which owns Presely's music catalogue - at least 274 songs of the late singer's, including Can’t Help Falling in Love, A Little Less Conversation and Don’t Be Cruel. Court documents, obtained by Rolling Stones, read the filing, “‘Claude’ has created infringing output of copyrighted material of virtually every song from every catalogue available on the internet, including the Works." “Even after the Defendant supposedly put up ‘guardrails’ after being sued, in one of its latest iterations, Claude continues…

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