Anthropic was sued by the owners of Elvis Presley’s music for allegedly using his songs to train AI models without permission.
As reported BillboardThe complaint was filed Friday and claims the company infringed on 274 Presley songs, including “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” “A Little Less Conversation” and “Don’t Be Cruel.”
“The Elvis Plaintiffs bring this action to assert these exclusive rights against the Defendant who has built his entire business model based on copyright infringement on a scale never before seen,” lead attorney Richard Busch wrote. “Elvis Plaintiffs Deeply Protect These Iconic Songs.”
Authentic Brands Group, which owns the rights to Presley, filed the lawsuit alongside other entities that also own the rights to the “Jailhouse Rock” singer, according to Billboard.
“‘Claude’ created an infringing production of copyrighted material of virtually every song in every catalog available on the Internet, including the works,” the lawsuit states, according to rolling stone. “Even after the defendant supposedly put up ‘guardrails’ after being sued, in one of his latest iterations, Claude continues to violate: When recently asked to recreate specific songs ‘for a modern audience,’ Claude did so and admitted: ‘These renditions continue to land very close to the originals: same structure, same hooks reused with light rephrasing and full sets of verses/choruses/bridges It’s a frontier beyond inspiration by ‘reproducing the copyrighted song, even when the lyrics are swapped.’
In August, Round Hill sued Suno and Anthropic, alleging massive copyright infringement. They alleged that AI companies were using hundreds of songs from the publisher to train their AI models without permission. Anthropic was also sued by Universal Music Publishing, Abcko, Concord and BMG over similar allegations that lyrics were used to train Claude, an AI agent.
rolling stone reports that the suit is seeking $150,000 per infringed song.
The Hollywood Reporter contacted Anthropic for comment but did not receive a response.
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