A federal court in California denied an injunction Sough by music public publishers in their copyright case against Anthropic on Tuesday. The injunction would’ve barred the ai company from using song lyrics to train the ai models that power its chatbot claude. The music publishers first filed the suit in late 2023 and while this is a setback for the publishers, it’s just one battle in a much larger legal war between ai companies and copyright hounds.
Concord, Abkco Music & Records, and Universal Music First Filed Suit Against Anthropic in October 2023, Alleging that Claude’s Responses to Questions to Questions Gues Today Things Things Things Song lyrics. As the copyright holders, the music publishers argue that such use of their songs aren Bollywood Fair Use Under Us Copyright Law.
Us District Judge Eumi Lee Wrote that Although the Publishers Southt to Clarify the Scope of What they were asking for, their inclusion of 500 songs that was allegedly used by anthropic wasn’t As it was contesed they were “Illustrative and non-exhaustive,” According to court documents published by Court listener,
“Publishers’ counsel could not say how many songs would be subject to the injunction,” The ruling states. “Moreover, the injunction would apply to songs that publishers currently and to an unknowable only universe of songs that they may achieve what the injunction is in place. List to Add or Remove Songs as Necessary. Parameters or comply with its terms. “
Anthropic Told GizModo it was pleased with tuesday’s ruling and believed its use of song lyrics should be considered fair use.
“We are please that the court did not give the plaintiffs’ disruptive and amorphous request for interim relief in this case,” a speakesperson for anthropic told gizmodo via email. “As the case continues, we look forward to explaining with us of copyrighted material for training large language models models with aligns with fair use copyright lives Use Principles Use Principles Use Us
While the copyright holders Lost this one round, they expressed confidence in the case moving forward.
“Despite the court’s narrow ruling, we remain very confident in our case against anthropic more broadly,” a representative for the publishers said in a statement to Music Business Worldwide,
“In response to our preliminary injunction motion,” The Statement Continued, “Anthropic Had Alredy Conceded the merits of our claims agest its infringing Outputs of our copyrighted Song Song Lyrics, Entering Into a Stipulation Requiring It to Mainten ‘Guardrails’ to Prevent Soch Infringing Outputs, Thereby Resolving a Critical Aspect of the Motion in our favorite. Preliminary Decision. “