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After music publishers sued AI company Anthropic over the alleged use of lyrics to train its AI system, a deal has finally been reached.
A U.S. District Judge signed off on the agreement on Thursday (January 2) which states the technology company will maintain its already implemented guardrails that prevent its chatbot from providing lyrics to songs owned by others.
It mandates that future product offerings and new large language models should have the same guardrails on text input and output applied.
Anthropic is a U.S. based artificial intelligence startup that was founded in 2021, it is the company behind the chatbot Claude. This tool’s capabilities include advanced reasoning, vision analysis, code generation and multilingual processing.
In a statement, reported by The Hollywood Reporter, the company said Claude “isn’t designed to be used for copyright infringement, and we have numerous processes in place designed to prevent such infringement.”
It added, “Our decision to enter into this stipulation is consistent with those priorities. We continue to look forward to showing that, consistent with existing copyright law, using potentially copyrighted material in the training of generative AI models is a quintessential fair use.”
Music publishers sued AI chatbot company Anthropic
It was in October of 2023 when Universal Music Group, Concord Music Group and ABKCO, among other publishers, initiated the action by filing a complaint against Anthropic.
According to the paperwork, they had claims of copyright infringement, contributory infringement, vicarious infringement, and removal or alteration of copyright management information.
An example cited within the complaint is when the AI tool was asked the lyrics to Katy Perry’s ‘Roar,’ which is owned by Concord Music Group, Claude allegedly provided a near-identical copy of the words in the song.
Under the new agreement, the filing states: “At any time during the pendency of this proceeding, Publishers may notify Anthropic in writing that its Guardrails are not effectively preventing output that reproduces, distributes, or displays, in whole or in part, the lyrics to compositions owned or controlled by Publishers, or creates derivative works based on those compositions.”
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