LLMMedium
Anthropic Allegedly Copied Copyrighted Song Lyrics Without Permission to Train Claude
- Occurred
- Sep 27, 2023
- Published
- Aug 16, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Music publishers alleged that Anthropic copied copyrighted song lyrics without permission to train Claude and that Claude reproduced protected lyrics in its outputs. Anthropic denied infringement and has argued that its training use is fair use. Publishers alleged that the conduct deprived rightsholders and songwriters of licensing control and revenue and undermined markets for licensed lyrics.
Developers
- Large language model developers
- Chatbot developers
- Anthropic
Deployers
- Anthropic
- AI service providers
Harmed parties
- Universal Music Group
- Songwriters
- Round Hill Music
- publishers
- Musicians
- Music publishers
- Intellectual Property rights holders
- Copyright holders
- Concord Music Group
- BMG Rights Management
- ABKCO Music
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Incident involves copyright infringement allegations against an LLM training process and output.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8