AI copyright litigation

It was a busy week in AI copyright litigation in the United States with three new decisions released in litigation involving Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft. One involved a failed attempt by music publishers to obtain an injunction against Anthropic from using lyrics to train its AI system, Claude. Two of the cases highlight pleading requirements in which certain claims of infringement were dismissed against OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic.

Concord Music v Anthropic

The Concord Music v Anthropic action arises out of the Anthropic’s alleged use of Plaintiffs’ copyrighted song lyrics to train a generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) model. …