Music Publishers Reach Deal With AI Giant Anthropic Over Copyrighted Song Lyrics (hollywoodreporter.com)
(Friday January 03, 2025 @11:44AM (BeauHD)
from the copyright-chaos dept.)
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- News link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/01/03/0441238/music-publishers-reach-deal-with-ai-giant-anthropic-over-copyrighted-song-lyrics
- Source link: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/anthropic-enforce-copyright-guardrails-ai-tools-1236098152/
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Hollywood Reporter:
> A trio of major music publishers [1]suing Anthropic over the use of lyrics to train its AI system have [2]reached a deal with the Amazon-backed company to resolve some parts of a pending preliminary injunction. U.S. District Judge Eumi Lee on Thursday signed off on [3]an agreement between the two sides mandating Anthropic to maintain existing guardrails that prevent its Claude AI chatbot from providing lyrics to songs owned by the publishers or create new song lyrics based on the copyrighted material.
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> In a statement, Anthropic said Claude "isn't designed to be used for copyright infringement, and we have numerous processes in place designed to prevent such infringement." It added, "Our decision to enter into this stipulation is consistent with those priorities. We continue to look forward to showing that, consistent with existing copyright law, using potentially copyrighted material in the training of generative AI models is a quintessential fair use." [...] Under the agreement, Anthropic will apply already-implemented guardrails in the training of new AI systems. The deal also provides an avenue for music publishers to intervene if the guardrails aren't working as intended.
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> "Publishers may notify Anthropic in writing that its Guardrails are not effectively preventing output that reproduces, distributes, or displays, in whole or in part, the lyrics to compositions owned or controlled by Publishers, or creates derivative works based on those compositions," the filing states. "Anthropic will respond to Publishers expeditiously and undertake an investigation into those allegations, with which Publishers will cooperate in good faith." Anthropic has maintained in court filings that existing guardrails make it unlikely that any future user could prompt Claude to produce any material portion of the works-in-suit. They consist of a "range of technical and other measures -- at all levels in the development lifecycle -- that aim to prevent users from simply prompting Claude to regurgitate training data," said a company spokesperson. The court is expected to issue a ruling in the coming months on whether to issue preliminary injunction that would bar Anthropic from training future models on lyrics owned by the publishers.
[1] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/10/19/1549211/universal-music-sues-ai-startup-anthropic-for-scraping-song-lyrics
[2] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/anthropic-enforce-copyright-guardrails-ai-tools-1236098152/
[3] https://www.scribd.com/document/810948883/stipulation
> A trio of major music publishers [1]suing Anthropic over the use of lyrics to train its AI system have [2]reached a deal with the Amazon-backed company to resolve some parts of a pending preliminary injunction. U.S. District Judge Eumi Lee on Thursday signed off on [3]an agreement between the two sides mandating Anthropic to maintain existing guardrails that prevent its Claude AI chatbot from providing lyrics to songs owned by the publishers or create new song lyrics based on the copyrighted material.
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> In a statement, Anthropic said Claude "isn't designed to be used for copyright infringement, and we have numerous processes in place designed to prevent such infringement." It added, "Our decision to enter into this stipulation is consistent with those priorities. We continue to look forward to showing that, consistent with existing copyright law, using potentially copyrighted material in the training of generative AI models is a quintessential fair use." [...] Under the agreement, Anthropic will apply already-implemented guardrails in the training of new AI systems. The deal also provides an avenue for music publishers to intervene if the guardrails aren't working as intended.
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> "Publishers may notify Anthropic in writing that its Guardrails are not effectively preventing output that reproduces, distributes, or displays, in whole or in part, the lyrics to compositions owned or controlled by Publishers, or creates derivative works based on those compositions," the filing states. "Anthropic will respond to Publishers expeditiously and undertake an investigation into those allegations, with which Publishers will cooperate in good faith." Anthropic has maintained in court filings that existing guardrails make it unlikely that any future user could prompt Claude to produce any material portion of the works-in-suit. They consist of a "range of technical and other measures -- at all levels in the development lifecycle -- that aim to prevent users from simply prompting Claude to regurgitate training data," said a company spokesperson. The court is expected to issue a ruling in the coming months on whether to issue preliminary injunction that would bar Anthropic from training future models on lyrics owned by the publishers.
[1] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/10/19/1549211/universal-music-sues-ai-startup-anthropic-for-scraping-song-lyrics
[2] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/anthropic-enforce-copyright-guardrails-ai-tools-1236098152/
[3] https://www.scribd.com/document/810948883/stipulation
ANTICOPYRIGHT industry ruins online cultrue. (Score:1)
by gavron ( 1300111 )
I'll purposely not go into why copyright exists, provides incentives to creators, etc. Intead:
The industry created to "police" (they are law enforcement), "fight" (they are not any military force), "remove" (they are trying to be a de-facto censorship organization) and "FILE SUITE" (their one true calling) is the bane to the existence of any work that makes use of any other work.
The problem we have in our society of today is allowing these copyright-maximalist to pretend to be part of the society in which
Guess how much (Score:2)
by 0xG ( 712423 )
the artists will get.
And the Copyright Enshittification begins (Score:3)
Copyright is a tool to punish, not create. The fact that you have to go back to the 1920s culture to no longer be affected means everything. We need a "pirate bay AI" fast.
Re: (Score:1)
Currently huggingface is full of uncensored community-tuned LLMs. Go and make a decentralized backup before huggingface starts cleaning as well.
I don't think they currently have plans, but when some XXXmedia site writes the next clickbait article about how uncensored LLM can create songs based on existing lyrics, the enshittification may come soon.