The music companies are seeking a jury trial and statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work infringed, with 500 works listed, totaling at least $75 million. The suit also seeks up to $25,000 in statutory damages per violation for Anthropic’s alleged removal and/or alteration of the publishers' copyright management information.
Key takeaways:
- Universal Music Group, along with Concord Music Group and ABKCO, is suing AI platform Anthropic for copyright infringement, seeking potentially tens of millions of dollars in damages.
- The lawsuit alleges that Anthropic's AI product, Claude, unlawfully copies and disseminates vast amounts of copyrighted song lyrics.
- The suit claims that Anthropic infringes the music companies’ copyrights by scraping and ingesting massive amounts of text from the internet, including copyrighted song lyrics, to train its AI models.
- The music companies are seeking a jury trial, and statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work infringed. With 500 works listed, they are seeking at least $75 million for alleged copyright infringement.