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Universal Music sues AI start-up Anthropic for scraping song lyrics

Universal Music artist Billie Eilish performing at Glastonbury last year

Enlarge / Universal Music artist Billie Eilish performing at Glastonbury last year. (credit: Getty Images)

Universal Music has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic, as the world’s largest music group battles against chatbots that churn out its artists’ lyrics.

Universal and two other music companies allege that Anthropic scrapes their songs without permission and uses them to generate “identical or nearly identical copies of those lyrics” via Claude, its rival to ChatGPT.

When Claude is asked for lyrics to the song “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor, for example, it responds with “a nearly word-for-word copy of those lyrics,” Universal, Concord, and ABKCO said in a filing with a US court in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Author: Financial Times. [Source Link (*), Ars Technica – All content]

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