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Intellectual Property

May 13, 2025

Anthropic seeks dismissal of music labels' lawsuit

Anthropic asks federal judge to dismiss music labels' lawsuit, claiming fair use in training AI model Claude with copyrighted lyrics, while labels argue unauthorized use persists.

Anthropic PBC, the artificial intelligence company behind the chat bot Claude, asked a federal judge in San Jose to dismiss a lawsuit by Capital Records, Universal Music and other music industry labels that claims using copyrighted material to train AI models violates the law.

Anthropic contends it is fair use.

The motion, filed Monday by attorneys from Latham & Watkins LLP, argues that the plaintiffs have failed to produce any evidence that Anthropic was aware of any...

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