Universal Music takes legal action against Anthropic AI for unauthorized use of song lyrics

Universal Music has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against AI start-up Anthropic, accusing it of scraping their songs without permission and using them to generate identical or nearly identical copies of lyrics through its chatbot, Claude. The music companies claim that Anthropic has never attempted to license their copyrighted work. This lawsuit highlights the music industry's concerns over AI technology's ability to produce "deepfake" songs. Anthropic, founded by researchers who left OpenAI, has drawn investments from Amazon and Google. Universal Music recently announced a partnership with BandLab to approach copyrights ethically for use in AI, while also working with Google to license its artists' voices and melodies for AI-generated songs.