Anthropic says music publishers still can't show copyright infringement in US case
( August 4, 2026, 18:15 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Anthropic moved to dismiss amended US copyright claims filed by Universal Music, Concord Music Group and ABKCO Music, saying the complaint lacks any example of an allegedly infringing output by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence. “Publishers have now had years to develop their evidence and yet still offer no examples to support their allegations, a particularly notable omission given publishers’ acknowledgement that Anthropic has ‘refined and expanded’ ‘additional guardrails purportedly designed to minimize AI output copying publishers’ copyrighted works.’ This pleading failure requires dismissal of the portion of publishers’ direct infringement claim premised on Claude outputs,” Anthropic argued. See attached file. ...
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