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Anthropic won't face US claims over shadow libraries from music publishers

By Amy Miller ( October 9, 2025, 00:43 GMT | Insight) -- Anthropic will not have to face new claims from music publishers over downloading song lyrics from shadow libraries to train its artificial intelligence tools, US District Judge Eumi K. Lee in San Jose decided from the bench. Concord Music and other music publishers haven't shown there's sufficient cause to add claims over song lyrics illegally obtained from shadow libraries to their case against Anthropic, Lee said. “I don’t see any diligence in terms of exploring this theory,” she said.Anthropic will not have to face new claims from music publishers over downloading song lyrics from shadow libraries to train its artificial intelligence tools, a US judge in California said Wednesday....

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