Anthropic, music publishers square off on 'fair use' defence in AI copyright case
Source: The Straits Times
Published on: 2026-10-21 23:19
The case could affect many AI copyright lawsuits, after earlier Northern California rulings split on whether AI training is fair use. SAN JOSE, California - Anthropic urged a judge in California on Oct 21 to rule that the AI company's use of millions of song lyrics to train its chatbot Claude is protected as "fair use" under US copyright law, as it seeks to scuttle a lawsuit brought by Universal Music Group and other music publishers. US District Judge Eumi Lee did not rule at a hearing in San Jose but pressed both sides on the fair use question, which could be key to dozens of other high-stakes copyright infringement cases in the AI era. Lee also questioned the publishers' assertion that Claude's ability to compose lyrics threatens the market for the publishers' lyrics. Anthropic lawyer Sonal Mehta of WilmerHale argued that its AI training leads to the creation of transformative new...
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