Judge Denies Move by Anthropic to Toss Music Copyright Claims

A judge denied an artificial intelligence company’s push to dismiss a case built on claims of copyright infringement by a consortium of music publishing companies on Monday, upholding the plaintiffs’ assertion that the company’s use of lyrics through its AI was partially due to its removal of “copyright management information.”

U.S. District Judge Eumi Lee denied the motion to dismiss without hearing oral argument after Concord Music Group Inc. and other music publishers filed an amended complaint against San Francisco-based Anthropic, a tech company that produces a series of AI large language models called “Claude,” which provides answers in response to user prompts based on collected data.

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