{"id":177477,"date":"2023-10-20T01:05:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T19:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=177477"},"modified":"2023-10-20T01:05:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T19:35:51","slug":"universal-music-group-sues-anthropic-ai-over-copyright-infringement-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/universal-music-group-sues-anthropic-ai-over-copyright-infringement-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Music Group sues Anthropic AI over copyright infringement – Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Universal Music Group (UMG), Concord Publishing and ABKCO Music & Records have filed a lawsuit<\/a> against the artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic on accusations of the latter committing copyright infringement in training its AI chatbot Claude.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit was filed on Oct. 18 and claims that Anthropic \u201cunlawfully\u201d copied and disseminated \u201cvast amounts of copyrighted works – including the lyrics to myriad musical compositions\u201d that are under the ownership or control of the publishers. <\/p>\n

It called Anthropic\u2019s use of the works \u201cwidespread and systematic infringement\u201d and said the defendant cannot reproduce, distribute and display copyrighted works to build a business without the proper rights. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis foundational rule of copyright law dates all the way back to the Statute of Anne in 1710, and it has been applied time and time again to numerous infringing technological developments in the centuries since. That principle does not fall away simply because a company adorns its infringement with the words \u201cAI.\u201d <\/p>\n

The lawsuit claims that Claude can generate identical or nearly identical copies of songs such as \u201cWhat a Wonderful World,\u201d \u201cGimme Shelter,\u201d \u201cAmerican Pie,\u201d \u201cSweet Home Alabama,\u201d \u201cEvery Breath You Take\u201d and at least 500 more.<\/p>\n

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In this case, the publishers provided examples of Claude being able to deliver an almost word for word replication of UMG\u2019s song \u201cI will survive\u201d by Gloria Gaynor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The plaintiffs have asked the court to order that the alleged infringement is put to an end, along with monetary damages. <\/p>\n

This case joins the many popping up against major AI developers on the grounds of copyright infringement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

OpenAI, the developer of AI chatbot ChatGPT, has been sued for similar reasons by the Author\u2019s Guild<\/a>. Meta is currently facing a lawsuit by author Sarah Silverman<\/a> and others for copyright issues. Google is involved in a lawsuit regarding its data scraping policy<\/a> for AI training purposes. <\/p>\n

As far as the music industry\u2019s involvement is concerned, UMG has been vigilant about protecting its catalogue and the rights of its artists from AI-related copyright violations. On Oct. 18 it entered into a strategic partnership with BandLab Technologies<\/a> focusing on ethical AI usage to protect artist and songwriter rights.<\/p>\n

Over the summer, UMG and Google were reportedly in talks<\/a> to create a tool that would allow for the creation of AI tracks using artists\u2019 likenesses in a legal way.<\/p>\n

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Universal Music Group (UMG), Concord Publishing and ABKCO Music & Records have filed a lawsuit against the artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic on accusations of the latter committing copyright infringement in training its AI chatbot Claude. The lawsuit was filed on Oct. 18 and claims that Anthropic \u201cunlawfully\u201d copied and disseminated \u201cvast amounts of copyrighted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[235,203,210,234,231,232,237,238,236,233],"class_list":["post-177477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain","tag-bitcoin","tag-crypto-currency","tag-elon-musk","tag-ethereum","tag-hyperledger","tag-ibm","tag-mining","tag-nodes","tag-spacex","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177480,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177477\/revisions\/177480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}