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Anthropic seeks fair-use ruling on Claude lyrics training at California hearing

Reuters reports publishers challenged Anthropic’s fair-use argument at an Oct. 21 hearing; Judge Eumi Lee did not rule.

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Anthropic asked a California judge to rule that its use of millions of song lyrics to train Claude is protected by fair use, Reuters reports. Universal Music Group, Concord and ABKCO allege copyright infringement. Their lawyer argued that competing AI-generated lyrics harm songwriters, while Anthropic’s lawyer disputed evidence of market harm. Judge Eumi Lee questioned both sides and did not rule at the Oct. 21 hearing.

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At an Oct. 21 hearing in San Jose, Anthropic asked U.S. District Judge Eumi Lee to rule that its use of millions of song lyrics to train Claude is protected by fair use under U.S. copyright law, Reuters reported. Lee pressed both sides on fair use but did not rule at the hearing.

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Universal Music Group, Concord and ABKCO sued Anthropic in 2023, alleging that its use of their lyrics to train Claude infringed copyrights in hundreds of songs. Anthropic lawyer Sonal Mehta argued that training produces transformative new content. Publishers’ lawyer Matt Oppenheim countered that Anthropic uses lyrics to generate competing content that harms human songwriters.

Oppenheim said Claude received nearly 120,000 requests to generate “synthetic” lyrics over six months. He warned that models like Claude “could overwhelm the market with AI-generated content very easily.” Mehta countered that AI had not reduced demand for the lyrics and that the publishers had identified no specific instances of market harm. Lee also questioned the publishers’ claim that Claude’s ability to compose lyrics threatened the market for their lyrics.

Anthropic seeks fair-use ruling on Claude lyrics training at California hearing

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