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Anthropic beats US injunction, infringement claims in music copyright case

By Amy Miller and Emma Whitford ( March 26, 2025, 21:01 GMT | Insight) -- Artificial intelligence company Anthropic can continue using music lyrics to train its large language model, and it has escaped, for now, allegations that its customers facilitated copyright infringement. But the threshold question of whether scraping music lyrics to train AI is permissible fair use under US copyright law is still looming in the case before US District Judge Eumi K. Lee in San Jose, California.Anthropic had two key wins this week in copyright litigation filed by US music publishers. The AI company can continue using music lyrics to train its large language model, and it has escaped, for now, allegations that its customers facilitated copyright infringement....

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