BMG sues Anthropic for using Bruno Mars, Rolling Stones lyrics in AI training

BMG ​said successful the ailment filed connected Tuesday that Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) copied and reproduced lyrics from deed songs by the Rolling Stones, Bruno Mars, Ariana Grande and different salient stone ‌and popular musicians, ⁠infringing hundreds of copyrights.

The suit is the latest among dozens of high-stakes cases brought by ⁠authors, quality outlets, and different copyright owners against tech companies for utilizing their enactment successful grooming ample connection models ​behind their ​chatbots. BMG rival Universal ​Music Group (UMG.AS) and different ‌music publishers filed a related suit against Anthropic successful 2023, which is inactive ongoing.

Anthropic settled different AI grooming suit brought by a radical of authors for $1.5 cardinal past year.

Spokespeople for the companies did not instantly respond to requests ‌for remark connected Wednesday.

AI companies person ​argued that they marque just ​use of copyrighted worldly ​by transforming it into thing new.

BMG, owned ‌by German media radical Bertelsmann, ​cited 493 ​examples of copyrights that Anthropic allegedly infringed. Statutory damages for copyright infringement nether U.S. instrumentality tin scope from ​hundreds of dollars ‌up to $150,000 per enactment if the tribunal finds ​the infringement was willful.

(Reporting by Blake Brittain successful ​Washington; editing by David Gaffen)