US EditionBMG sues Anthropic for using Bruno Mars, Rolling Stones lyrics in AI training
BMG alleges Anthropic trained its Claude AI on 493 copyrighted songs without licenses and seeks up to $150,000 per infringement in damages to protect songwriters' rights.
- On Tuesday, BMG Rights Management sued Anthropic in California federal court, alleging the company used copyrighted lyrics from The Rolling Stones and Bruno Mars to train its Claude chatbot.
- BMG alleges Anthropic obtained training material by torrenting files from illegal libraries, citing 493 examples of copyrights allegedly infringed, including lyrics by Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber scraped from BMG-licensed sites.
- When prompted, Claude provides significant portions of BMG-owned compositions including "Uptown Funk," Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World," and Doors Down's "Kryptonite." The lawsuit claims Claude generates unauthorized copies even when asked for new or original lyrics.
- BMG seeks the statutory maximum of $150,000 per infringement, calculating total damages at least $70 million. The lawsuit notes Anthropic recently raised $30 billion at a valuation of $380 billion.
- Anthropic has maintained that it is shielded by the principle of "fair use," a tenet of copyright law allowing unlicensed work to be used in "transformative" fashion. The company faces a flood of similar copyright litigation from other music publishers.
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In total, the company cited 493 examples of copyrights that Anthropic allegedly infringed.
BMG Sues Anthropic, Entering AI Copyright Battlefield: ‘Egregious Law-Breaking’
BMG has sued Anthropic for copyright infringement, joining the ranks of other large music rightsholders that have entered the AI litigation fray. The various publishing arms of BMG filed a lawsuit on Tuesday (March 17) against the behemoth company, which is behind the popular AI chatbot Claude. BMG alleges the model was trained on lyrics from unlicensed songs, including Billboard Hot 100 chart-toppers like Ariana Grande’s “7 Rings” and Bruno M…
Because of the infringement of copyrights in the use of lyrics, BMG sued the company Anthropic. Anthropic copied lyrics to train his chatbot Claude.
Jyllands-Posten
PolitikenThe German-owned music company BMG is taking the American tech company Anthropic to court for using music from artists such as "The Rolling Stones", Bruno Mars and Ariana Grande to train the company's ch...
A musical company claimed that the startup, through Claude's chatbot, copied and replayed successful music letters by infringing hundreds of copyright rights
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