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Author: Wei Shutian Intellectual Property Finance

Intellectual Property Finance learned from overseas media Reuters that last Thursday, artificial intelligence company Anthropic asked the U.S. federal court in California to dismiss copyright claims filed by some music publishers who accused the company of misusing song lyrics when training its AI chatbot Claude. (Case No.: 3:24-cv-03811)

Anthropic is an artificial intelligence startup based in San Francisco, California, USA. It launched its latest AI model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, in June 2024.

Last October, three music publishers, Universal Music Group (UMG), ABKCO Music, and Concord Music Group, filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in what appears to be the first lawsuit over lyrics and the first filed against Anthropic.

The music publishers accused Anthropic of infringing its copyright on lyrics to at least 500 songs by artists including Beyoncé, the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys. The publishers said the lyrics were part of a “huge trove of text” that Anthropic scraped from the internet and used to train Claude to respond to human prompts.