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GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright
Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic hits out at copyright lawsuit filed by music publishing corporations, claiming the content ingested into its models falls under ‘fair use’ and that any licensing regime created to manage its use of copyrighted material in training data would be too complex and costly to work in practice
The filing, submitted to a Tennessee District Court, alleged that Anthropic, in building and operating its AI models, “unlawfully copies and disseminates vast amounts of copyrighted works – including the lyrics to myriad musical compositions owned or controlled by publishers”. In a 40-page document submitted to the court on 16 January 2024 (responding specifically to a"preliminary injunction request" filed by the music publishers in November), Anthropic took the same argument further, claiming “it would not be possible to amass sufficient content to train an LLM like Claude in arm’s-length licensing transactions, at any price”. It added although these measures are generally effective, they are not perfect: “It is true that, particularly for a user who has set out to deliberately misuse Claude to get it to output material portions of copyrighted works, some shorter texts may slip through the multi-pronged defenses Anthropic has put in place.
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