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A Look At Partial Deal In Music Publishers’ Lyrics Infringement Suit Against AI Company Anthropic

By Michelle Morgante
February 01, 2025

The partial agreement that music publishers reached in January with Anthropic PBC requires the Amazon-backed artificial intelligence company to implement “guardrails” around its use of copyrighted song lyrics to train its flagship product Claude.

The agreement signed by U.S. District Judge Eumi K. Lee of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California addressed only part of the publisher’s copyright infringement lawsuit against San Francisco-based Anthropic. The parties continue to dispute Anthropic’s alleged misuse of 500 copyrighted song lyrics that the plaintiffs contend were used to train Claude’s large language model. Concord Music Group Inc. v. Anthropic PBC, 3:24-cv-03811.

The partial deal requires Anthropic to maintain already-implemented guardrails to “prevent infringing outputs of copyrighted content, including publishers’ works,” it stated. The publishers include major music companies such as Concord Music Group, Capitol CMG, Universal Music, Polygram and ABKCO Music.

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