Owners of Elvis music rights sue Anthropic for copyright violations
Summary
Authentic Brands Group, which owns rights to Elvis Presley’s music, has sued Anthropic, alleging the AI company used 274 songs without a licence to train its Claude model. The complaint seeks up to $41 million in damages; Anthropic says it disputes the claims and will defend itself.Key Facts
- The lawsuit was filed on Friday in court.
- Authentic Brands says the songs include “All Shook Up,” “Don’t Be Cruel” and “Return To Sender.”
- The complaint seeks up to $150,000 for each allegedly infringed song.
- Authentic Brands alleges Claude produced unlicensed works that closely resembled copyrighted songs.
- Anthropic has denied the claims and said it intends to defend the case.
- The lawsuit follows other copyright cases against Anthropic brought by music rights holders Reservoir and Universal Music Group.
- In 2025, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a separate lawsuit brought by authors over material used to train its AI models.
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