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EFF backs Anthropic in music publishers’ US copyright case

( April 27, 2026, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Electronic Frontier Foundation told a US federal judge that arguments to apply copyright liability to artificial intelligence models that are trained on copyrighted materials espouse a new theory of law based in substantial part on hyperbole and speculation about the displacement of “human artistic creativity.” EFF urged the court to grant a judgment in favor of Anthropic in a case brought by music publishers. It argued that accepting the publishers’ approach, particularly the proposed licensing model, “risks cutting off many of the real benefits AI models offer by ensuring that technological development stays in the hands of the very few companies that can afford to make those deals, subject to veto by the relatively few copyright-holders with the practical means to offer them.”See attached file. ...

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