Publishers want to prevent the use of copyrighted content for AI training. However, the court battle is far from over. The music publishers who are suing Anthropic want to make su

While the case is proceeding, Anthropic's Claude will no longer provide lyrics to songs owned by the music publishers or new lyrics based on copyrighted material.

The AI company still argues that training Claude on copyrighted material constitutes fair use.

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has reached an agreement with Universal Music and other music publishers over its use of "guardrails" to keep its chatbot Claude from generating copyrighted song lyrics,

Anthropic has partly resolved a legal disagreement that saw the AI startup draw the ire of the music industry. In October 2023, a group of music publishers, including Universal Music and ABKCO, filed a copyright infringement complaint against Anthropic.

In October 2023, several music publishers including Universal Music Group, ABKCO, Concord Music Group, and Greg Nelson Music filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Anthropic for allegedly training its AI system on lyrics from at least 500 protected songs.