A subsidiary of the Authentic Brands Group and other rights holders accused Anthropic of having led Claude on 274 titles of the King, and claimed $150,000 per work.
The complaint was filed on Friday, 23 October in a US federal court. It brings together a subsidiary of the Authentic Brands Group, which manages the name and image of Elvis Presley, and several companies with rights in its repertoire. They blame Anthropic for using 274 songs, including "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "A Little Less Conversation", to train his models without permission. The amount requested is the legal ceiling of $150,000 per counterfeit work, or approximately $41 million.
Lawyer Richard Busch, who leads the proceedings, accuses Anthropic of having built his business model on a counterfeit of unprecedented magnitude. The text states that Claude would produce recaptures of virtually any catalogue available online, and that the safeguards added after previous complaints are not enough: recently requested to modernize precise songs, the model itself would have recognized that its versions remained too close to the originals, with the same structure and choruses barely reformulated.
This action is in addition to the action taken by several musical publishers (Universal, Concord, ABKCO) on song lyrics, and comes a week after the International Confederation of Music Publishers denounced the unauthorized use of works by Kylie Minogue or Nick Cave for AI training. Anthropic disputes the charges.
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