Music giant BMG sues Anthropic over AI training

Anthropic sued by authors over alleged misuse of copyrighted works for AI training

The complaint alleges that Anthropic used pirated versions of books by hundreds of thousands of authors to develop its AI models without proper authorization or compensation.

Music Publishers Sue AI Company Anthropic for Copyright Infringement

Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord, and ABKCO claim that the large language model Claud was trained on copyrighted works

Anthropic agrees to work with music publishers to prevent copyright infringement

Anthropic has partly resolved a legal disagreement that saw the AI startup draw the ire of the music industry.

Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot

A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement involving AI company Anthropic. The company will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book for using pirated copies to train its Claude chatbot.

Who owns an AI generated song? What we can learn from the phonograph and the evolution of copyright laws

History suggests copyright adapts to technology. AI may be no exception.

Firms like Meta and A16z admit having to pay billions for training data would ruin their generative-AI plans as they fight new copyright rules

Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Andreessen Horowitz are trying to keep AI developers from having to pay for copyrighted material used in AI training.

AI Is Already Training on Music. The Real Question Is: Who Gets Paid?

AI is already learning from music. Quietly, constantly, and at a scale most people don’t fully see yet. While the industry debates hypotheticals, the real shift has already happened. The […]

The grueling fight over who profits from AI music

AI can generate songs in seconds. But behind every AI track is a complicated question: Who should get paid? And, how? The fights have started.

Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training

Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of ‘one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history’

SZA, Kenneth Blume Decry Use of Their Songs in AI Training Data Sets

“I can’t imagine being proud to earn a paycheck obliterating the work and dreams of artists”

'The ability to say no': Artists demand consent over AI use of their music

As labels strike deals with AI start-ups, advocacy groups warn that the artists whose voices and work make those deals valuable are being shut out.

‘This Is Not Me’: Inside the AI Scams Driving Musicians Crazy

Indie artists are constantly finding AI-generated slop and direct impersonations on their streaming pages, and it's only getting worse.

Anthropic faces user backlash over reported performance issues with its Claude AI chatbot | Fortune

“Claude has regressed to the point [that] it cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering,” one developer wrote.

Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal

One of the most important AI copyright legal battles just took a major turn.