US-based artificial intelligence company Anthropic has reached an agreement to resolve part of a lawsuit filed by music publishers over copyright infringement claims regarding its Claude AI model. The settlement was approved Thursday by U.S. District Judge Eumi Lee. Accordingly, Anthropic will continue to apply existing protection measures in the artificial intelligence models it will develop in the future and will create a procedure for publishers to intervene in case of suspicion of copyright infringement.
In October 2023, major music publishers including Universal Music Group, ABKCO, Concord Music Group, and Greg Nelson Music filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Anthropic. According to the complaint, the Claude AI model was trained on the lyrics of at least 500 protected songs. These songs included hits like Beyoncé’s “Halo,” Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk” and Maroon 5’s “Moves like Jagger.”
Details of the lawsuit allege that when asked about the lyrics of these songs, Claude provided either all or most of them accurately. Music publishers stated that platforms such as Genius also share lyrics, but such platforms obtain licenses by paying copyright fees. In contrast, it has been alleged that Anthropic deliberately removed or altered copyright management information while using data from these sites to train its own models.
The agreement signed by Anthropic on Thursday promises that the company will maintain its existing protection measures and apply these measures to the new artificial intelligence systems it will develop. It will also work “in good faith” with music publishers to resolve situations where protection measures are inadequate. If a dispute is not resolved, the court will step in.
Anthropic is happy with the deal
“Claude was not designed for copyright infringement, and we have many processes in place to prevent such infringement,” Anthropic said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. “Our decision to reach this agreement is in line with these priorities,” he said. The company also argued that, in accordance with copyright laws, the use of potentially copyrighted materials in training generative AI models falls within ‘fair use’.
The music publishers who filed the lawsuit sought an injunction to prevent Anthropic from using protected lyrics in future AI models. The court is expected to give its decision on this request in the coming months.
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