Universal Music has sued artificial intelligence startup Anthropic over "systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics," per a filing Wednesday in a Tennessee federal court.
One example from the lawsuit: When a user asks Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude about the lyrics to the song "Roar" by Katy Perry, it generates an "almost identical copy of those lyrics," violating the rights of Concord, the copyright owner, per the filing.
The lawsuit also named Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" as an example of Anthropic's alleged copyright infringement, as Universal owns the rights to its lyrics.
Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI research executives and funded by companies including Google , Salesforce and Zoom.
"We have been focused on businesses, on making Claude as robustly safe as possible," Daniela Amodei, co-founder and president of Anthropic, told CNBC in a July interview.
Persons:
Katy Perry, Claude, Gloria Gaynor's, Anthropic's, Anthropic, Kamala Harris, OpenAI's, Daniela Amodei
Organizations:
Pepsi, University of Phoenix, Farm, Universal Music, Universal, Google, White, Microsoft, CNBC
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Glendale , Arizona, Tennessee, Concord, ABKCO