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Anthropic will pay authors $1.5 billion to settle AI copyright case

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Anthropic • 3 min read

Anthropic will pay authors $1.5 billion to settle AI copyright case

Last month a US judge threw out a royalties lawsuit filed by SoundExchange against satellite broadcaster Sirius XM, concluding that the collecting society doesn’t actually have the right to sue its licensees. SoundExchange says that ruling was “erroneous” and is now taking the matter to appeal…

Chris Cooke • 08 Sep 2025

Anthropic settles legal dispute with authors - in a deal that could be influential in other AI copyright disputes

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Anthropic settles legal dispute with authors - in a deal that could be influential in other AI copyright disputes

A settlement between Anthropic and a group of US authors could prove influential in the big debate over copyright and AI. A judge ruled that Anthropic’s use of books in its AI training was fair use unless it had pirated those books. Which it had. Which is why the AI company is now keen to settle…

Chris Cooke • 27 Aug 2025

Music publishers want to amend Anthropic lawsuit because of pirated lyrics

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Music publishers want to amend Anthropic lawsuit because of pirated lyrics

Music publishers locked in a legal battle with AI company Anthropic want to amend their lawsuit, because of a recent ruling in another copyright case involving Anthropic. Following that ruling, it’s important the publishers stress that the AI business used pirated lyrics when training its model…

Chris Cooke • 13 Aug 2025

Australian music industry says proposed AI copyright exception would be “a dangerous step backwards”

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Australian music industry says proposed AI copyright exception would be “a dangerous step backwards”

Last week the Australian government’s Productivity Commission invited feedback on the proposal that a new exception be added to the country’s copyright law to benefit AI companies. The music industry has hit back at that proposal, with indie label group AIR calling it “a dangerous step backwards”…

Chris Cooke • 11 Aug 2025

Implementation of EU AI Act “solely benefits” AI companies say creator groups who demand a complete rethink

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Implementation of EU AI Act “solely benefits” AI companies say creator groups who demand a complete rethink

The European Commission has now published various documents setting out how AI companies should comply with copyright and transparency obligations in the EU AI Act. However, creator groups say their concerns were ignored when those documents were being compiled and they should therefore be rewritten…

Chris Cooke • 30 Jul 2025

Getting AI companies to agree to licensing deals with copyright owners is “not doable” and “China’s not doing it”, rambles Trump

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Getting AI companies to agree to licensing deals with copyright owners is “not doable” and “China’s not doing it”, rambles Trump

Donald Trump yesterday launched his much anticipated ‘AI Action Plan’. It doesn’t say anything about the copyright obligations of AI companies. But during a rambling speech launching the plan, the President said that having AI companies get licences from copyright owners is just “not doable”…

Chris Cooke • 24 Jul 2025

US Senators propose new law to ban AI companies "from stealing and training on copyright works"

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US Senators propose new law to ban AI companies "from stealing and training on copyright works"

Last week US Senator Josh Hawley said that AI companies were engaged in “the largest IP theft in American history”. Now he’s teamed up with fellow senator Richard Blumenthal to propose new laws on AI, copyright and data which would “bar AI companies from training on copyright works”…

Chris Cooke • 22 Jul 2025

Anthropic’s ‘fair use’ win in AI copyright case could turn into a trillion dollar loss

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Anthropic’s ‘fair use’ win in AI copyright case could turn into a trillion dollar loss

Anthropic had a big win in court last month when a US judge said AI training was fair use. But only when an AI company copies legitimately sourced works and Anthropic copied millions of pirated books. Now this lawsuit has become a class action, meaning authors of all those books could be due damages…

Chris Cooke • 18 Jul 2025

No copyright exception for AI training in European law, says new report

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No copyright exception for AI training in European law, says new report

A recent report commissioned by the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee concludes that the much discussed text and data mining copyright exception added to EU law in 2019 wasn't intended for AI training. MEP Axel Voss says that specific EU copyright rules for AI are now needed…

Chris Cooke • 16 Jul 2025

EU is watering down AI protections say musicians

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EU is watering down AI protections say musicians

The music industry remains concerned that transparency obligations in the EU AI Act - forcing AI firms to declare what content they used in their training data - are being watered down in implementation. 30+ European artists have now posted videos calling on lawmakers to ensure that doesn’t happen…

Chris Cooke • 15 Jul 2025

Music industry welcomes removal of AI regulation moratorium from One Big Beautiful Bill

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Music industry welcomes removal of AI regulation moratorium from One Big Beautiful Bill

When Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill was passed by the House Of Representatives in May it included a provision pausing all state-level regulation of AI in the US. Critics saw it as an attempt by big tech to slow down and lessen AI regulation. The provision has now been removed by the Senate…

Chris Cooke • 02 Jul 2025

Denmark wants to stamp out deepfakes with new voice and likeness rights

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Denmark wants to stamp out deepfakes with new voice and likeness rights

Danish law-makers will soon consider new rights that would allow performers to stop their voice or likeness being exploited in AI-generated deepfakes. The Danish government will propose amendments to the country's copyright laws which could prove influential across the European Union…

Chris Cooke • 30 Jun 2025