US music publishers sue Anthropic, tell court: Anthropic has “committed copyright infringement on a massive scale” and that …

A coalition of major music publishers, including Universal Music Group, Concord, and ABKCO, has reportedly urged a California federal judge to rule that U.S. copyright law offers no protection to artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic for its use of song lyrics. According to a Reuters report, the publishers filed a motion in San Jose, asking the court to hold the Amazon and Google-backed company Anthropic liable for copying millions of copyrighted works to train its AI chatbot, Claude. The plaintiffs said in a statement that Anthropic has “committed copyright infringement on a massive scale” and that the evidence was “overwhelming.” T