Anthropic agrees to work with music publishers to prevent copyright infringement

Anthropic has partly resolved a legal disagreement that saw the AI startup draw the ire of the music industry. The group alleged that the company had trained its Claude AI model on at least 500 songs to which they held rights and that, when promoted, Claude could reproduce the lyrics of those tracks either partially or in full. Among the song lyrics the publishers said Anthropic had infringed on included Beyoncé's "Halo" and "Moves Like Jagger" by Maroon 5. In cases where the company intends not to address an issue, it must clearly state its intent to do so. "Our decision to enter into this stipulation is consistent with those priorities.