In a first of many battling decisions in the courts, Anthropic wins lawsuit over music publishers over lyrics that were ingested into training data sets. This is a small pool of the groups suing LLM companies, but it is a first blow. Essentially, the court said that the music companies had not proven that Anthropic’s services reduced licensing fees from lyrics websites. And, in a bizarre argument, the court said that because complying with the request not to use copyrighted lyrics would be too hard for Anthropic to do, that was another reason.
This is one case, and a very particular one, which will likely be the first of many decisions that get challenged until it goes to the Supreme Court.
PS “Lawsuit drawing first blood” brought to you by “third hand”, “weird way to hold a knife”, and “um, graphic”.
