Universal Music Group and other music publishers have made significant progress in their copyright battle with artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a court approved protections or “guardrails” for artificial intelligence-generated lyrics.
UMG, Along with other publishers, including Concord Music Group and abuko, sued Anthropic selection In 2023, it was accused of copyright infringement.
The group claims Anthropic trained its artificial intelligence system Claude The lyrics are at least from 500 songs by major artists, include katy perry, this The Rolling Stones, and beyonceand seek $150,000 Damages for each infringement.
Publishers welcomed the court’s decision to impose these “guardrails” as validation of their claims that Anthropic’s artificial intelligence chatbot Claude copied copyrighted lyrics without authorization.
These measures require Anthropic to maintain various protective controls in current artificial intelligence models and implement similar protective measures in future large-scale language models and products.
“Anthropic will need to maintain various guardrails in its Claude AI model and implement these guardrails in future large language models and products.”
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“We are pleased that the Court has approved these important ‘guardrails’ – steps Anthropic must take to protect Publisher Plaintiffs’ copyrighted content by preventing the infringing export of copyrighted lyrics – effectively acknowledging our claim that Crowder The reasonableness of the claim for infringing output. UMG said in a statement to MBW on behalf of the other publishers.
“Under the regulation, Anthropic will be required to maintain various guardrails in its Claude AI models and implement these guardrails in future large-scale language models and products.”
The publisher welcomed Anthropic’s agreement to the rule as a “positive step forward” but stressed that their Legal battle continues. A key aspect of their lawsuit remains unresolved — specifically, their motion for a preliminary injunction aimed at preventing Anthropic from using the publisher’s lyrics for future artificial intelligence model training.
UMG said: “While Anthropic’s rule is a positive step forward, the litigation is ongoing and the publisher’s motion for a preliminary injunction, which seeks to prevent Anthropic from exploiting the publisher’s lyrics, is still pending in court. Future artificial intelligence model training.
The court-approved agreement establishes a mechanism for publishers to notify Anthropic if they discover that safeguards have failed to prevent unauthorized copying of their copyrighted lyrics. Under the terms, Anthropic must promptly respond to and investigate such allegations and work with publishers “in good faith” to resolve any identified issues.
“Anthropic will ultimately provide a detailed written response identifying when and how Anthropic will resolve the issue identified in the publisher’s notice, or Anthropic will expressly state that it does not intend to address the issue,” according to a stipulation and proposed order. Judge Li Huimei U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
“Anthropic will ultimately provide a detailed written response clarifying when and how Anthropic will resolve the issue identified in the publisher’s notice, otherwise Anthropic will make it clear that it does not intend to address the issue.”
Judge Eumi K. Lee, United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Anthropic filed a motion in August asking the court to dismiss the charges brought against it by the music publisher. It also asked the court to drop charges of “contributory” copyright infringement, “substitute” copyright infringement and “deletion or alteration of copyright management information” in violation of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Then in September, Universal, Concord and ABKCO urged the court to reject the motion to dismiss.
Anthropic receives additional damages in lawsuit $4 billion Investments from online retail and internet services giants Amazon Late November. This brings Amazon’s total investment in Anthropic to US$8 billionwhen including $4 billion Investment announced in September 2023.
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