Anthropic has been sued by the owners of Elvis Presley’s music for allegedly using his songs to train an AI model without permission.
As reported boardThe lawsuit was filed Friday and claims the company infringed 274 of Presley’s songs, including “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” “A Little Less Conversation” and “Don’t Be Cruel.”
“The Elvis plaintiffs bring this action to enforce these exclusive rights against a defendant who has never before seen his entire business model based on copyright infringement,” lead attorney Richard Bush wrote. “Elvis plaintiffs deeply protect these iconic songs.”
Authentic Brands Group, which owns the rights to Presley, filed the lawsuit along with other entities that also own the rights to the “Jailhouse Rock” singer. board.
“‘Cloud’ has created infringing output of copyrighted material containing virtually every song from every catalog available on the Internet, including the Works,” the lawsuit says. rolling stone. “Even after allegedly putting up ‘railroads’ after being sued by defendants, in one of its latest iterations, Cloud continues to infringe: When recently asked to recreate specific songs ‘for a modern audience,’ Cloud did so and admitted: ‘These renditions continue to come very close to the originals: similar structure, similar hooks reused with mild rewording, and complete sets of verses/choruses/bridges.’ It ‘Inspired by ‘The Edge of the Past’ Reproducing a copyrighted song, even if the words are interchanged.’
In August, Round Hill sued Listen and Anthropic, claiming massive copyright infringement. He alleged that AI companies used hundreds of the publisher’s songs to train their AI models without permission. Anthropic was previously sued by Universal Music Publishing, Abco, Concord and BMG over similar claims over using songs to train AI agent Cloud.
rolling stone The lawsuit is seeking $150,000 per infringed song, the report said.
hollywood reporter Anthropic reached out for comment, but did not receive a response.