In October 2023, several music publishers including Universal Music Group, ABKCO, Concord Music Group, and Greg Nelson Music filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Anthropic for allegedly training its AI system on lyrics from at least 500 protected songs.

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has reached an agreement with Universal Music and other music publishers over its use of "guardrails" to keep its chatbot Claude from generating copyrighted song lyrics,

Music publishers allege that Anthropic violated copyright policies by using hundreds of songs to train its Claude chatbot.

Anthropic and the record labels that sued it over copyright concerns agree the Amazon-backed AI firm's products can't recite protected music or make derivative work.

After music publishers sued AI company Anthropic over the alleged use of lyrics to train its AI system, a deal has finally been reached.

Anthropic PBC must apply guardrails to prevent its future AI tools from producing infringing copyrighted content, according to a Monday agreement reached with music publishers suing the company for infringing protected song lyrics.

While the case is proceeding, Anthropic's Claude will no longer provide lyrics to songs owned by the music publishers or new lyrics based on copyrighted material.

The AI company still argues that training Claude on copyrighted material constitutes fair use. Anthropic has reached a settlement and agreed to put a stop to showing users music lyrics based on copyrighted songs from several music publishers.