Anthropic moves to dismiss BMG's US copyright claims

( October 14, 2026, 16:07 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Anthropic moved to dismiss BMG’s US copyright claims over musical composition, arguing that BMG can’t identify any infringing outputs by its Claude models. Anthropic noted that the suit is the third filed by BMG’s publishing group, and since those previous complaint, Anthropic has expanded and improved its guardrails against copyright infringement, including in the more recent Claude models BMG targets in the new complaint.See attached file. ...

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