Publishers Say Anthropic's Use Of Lyrics Violates Copyrights

By Ivan Moreno ( March 24, 2026, 7:04 PM EDT) -- Music publishers have asked a California federal judge to rule that Anthropic infringed their copyrighted song lyrics through its Claude large language model, arguing in a motion for partial summary judgment that fair use does not excuse the AI developer's conduct because it used those lyrics to build a competing commercial product....

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