Anthropic Reaches Preliminary Copyright Agreement with Music Publishers
The Amazon-backed AI company Anthropic has reached a tentative agreement in its legal battle with music publishers over the use of song lyrics to train its Claude chatbot. Anthropic promises to implement safeguards preventing its AI from reproducing copyrighted lyrics, but still argues that training AI in this way falls under fair use. Although a preliminary agreement has been made, the lawsuit continues, leaving the question of what constitutes fair use in AI training open-ended.
Jan 3