Elvis Presley music rightsholders reportedly sue Anthropic over alleged AI training on 274 songs

Elvis Presley’s music rightsholders have sued Anthropic, alleging the company trained AI models on his songs without permission, Rolling Stone reports. Rolling Stone credits Billboard with first reporting the Friday filing. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Authentic Brands Group filed alongside other entities with Presley rights.

Rolling Stone identifies the case as ABE EPE LLC v. Anthropic and reports that the lawsuit alleges training on 274 Presley songs, including “All Shook Up” and “Can’t Help Falling in Love.” The Hollywood Reporter also lists “A Little Less Conversation” among the songs the suit claims Anthropic infringed. The plaintiffs seek $150,000 per allegedly infringed track, or roughly $41 million, according to Rolling Stone.

The allegations also concern Claude’s responses. Rolling Stone quotes the lawsuit as claiming Claude generated infringing output and continued to do so after Anthropic supposedly put up “guardrails” after being sued. In one example cited by the plaintiffs, the suit quotes Claude describing renders as having the same structure and hooks reused with light rewording.