Music Publishers, Anthropic Fight Over Song Lyric Discovery

By Dorothy Atkins ( March 18, 2025, 10:11 PM EDT) -- Music publishers urged a California federal magistrate judge Tuesday to order artificial intelligence company Anthropic to produce certain song lyric data from both before and after Anthropic implemented "guardrails" to prevent Anthropic's AI tool "Claude" from outputting copyrighted lyrics, while Anthropic slammed the discovery request as overly broad....

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