Anthropic files reply for judgment against music publishers' US copyright claims
( September 8, 2026, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Anthropic filed a reply in support of its motion for judgment against 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. Anthropic argued that the impact of any individual piece of training data on a large language model is marginal. “What matters is having a large and diverse set of materials. Lyrics were collected only as a byproduct of assembling that set,” it said.See attached file. ...
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