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Anthropic, music publishers square off on 'fair use' defense in AI copyright case

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Anthropic, music publishers square off on 'fair use' defense in AI copyright case

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Anthropic, music publishers square off on 'fair use' defense in AI copyright case

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.

Anthropic urged a judge in California on Wednesday 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 content, putting it squarely under the fair use doctrine. The publishers' attorney Matt Oppenheim of Oppenheim + Zebrak responded that Anthropic misuses its lyrics to generate competing content that harms human songwriters. Oppenheim said Claude received nearly 120,000 requests to generate "synthetic" lyrics over a six-month period. " Mehta countered that AI has not reduced demand for the lyrics, and that the publishers could not identify any specific instances of market harm from Claude or other large language models.


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