{"id":657311,"date":"2026-10-26T06:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/657311\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T06:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:14:16","slug":"elvis-presley-catalog-owners-sue-anthropic-alleging-copyright-infringement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/657311\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Presley catalog owners sue Anthropic alleging copyright infringement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The owners of rights to much of Elvis Presley\u2019s<\/a> song catalog have sued Anthropic<\/a>, claiming the artificial-intelligence giant used his songs without permission to train its online agent Claude<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Partnerships that control 274 of Presley\u2019s best-known songs \u2014 including \u201cAll Shook Up,\u201d \u201cCan\u2019t Help Falling in Love,\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t Be Cruel\u201d and \u201cReturn To Sender\u201d \u2014 said the San Francisco-based AI company had paid nothing for capturing the songs and using them to help improve Claude.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefendant has built its entire business model based on copyright infringement at a scale never seen before,\u201d the plaintiffs said in a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

The Elvis partnerships said that their collection includes \u201csome of the most groundbreaking, revolutionary, influential, and enduring musical compositions in human history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Authentic Brands Group, which owns the rights to Presley, initiated the lawsuit along with other legal entities that also own the rights, according to the music industry publication Billboard.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe disagree with the claims and intend to defend this case fully,\u201d an Anthropic spokesperson said in a statement Sunday.<\/p>\n

The plaintiffs\u2019 lawyers noted in their filing that at least a half dozen suits currently pending in federal court in San Francisco related to musical compositions being improperly used to train artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

The lawyers for the Presley plaintiffs are seeking roughly $50 million in damages, along with reimbursement of court costs and attorneys fees.<\/p>\n

The suit contends that Anthropic was put on notice that it was improperly accessing copyrighted material, but continued with the practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnthropic ran roughshod over the rights of countless creatives and rightsholders,\u201d the lawsuit charged, \u201cusing their works without permission, removing identifying information from those works, and keeping ill-gotten gains for itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anthropic stored Elvis\u2019 songs \u201cinto a permanent, general-purpose central library intended to be retained indefinitely, from which subsets were selected and copied again to train the next generation of Claude models,\u201d the lawsuit contends.<\/p>\n

Anthropic\u2019s actions allow users to create derivative songs without paying the copyright holders, the lawsuit says. And the suit suggests that Claude, itself, recognized how these new versions \u201ckeep landing very close to the originals: same structure, same hooks reused with light rewording, and full sets of verses\/choruses\/bridges. That\u2019s edging past \u2018inspired by\u2019 into reproducing the copyrighted song, even when the words are swapped out.\u201d <\/p>\n

The lawsuit claims that such unauthorized reuse \u201cis destroying the value of these works in a matter of a few years with only profit as its motive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The owners of rights to much of Elvis Presley\u2019s song catalog have sued Anthropic, claiming the artificial-intelligence giant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,1463,343,344,3891,295773,1551,18401,85,46,3195,12926,19467,151894,1547,78246,4674,2702,5169,125,1264],"class_list":["post-657311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-claude","tag-countless-creative","tag-elvis-presley","tag-federal-court","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lawsuit","tag-lawyer","tag-permission","tag-plaintiff","tag-presley","tag-right","tag-san-francisco","tag-song","tag-suit","tag-technology","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}