Elvis Presley rightsholders sue AI company Anthropic over alleged copyright infringement of 274 songs

The owners of Elvis Presley‘s music have launched legal action against AI company Anthropic, accusing it of using 274 of his songs to train its models without permission. READ MORE: ‘EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert’ review: a sensational but superficial love letter to the King The lawsuit was filed on Friday (October 23) by a subsidiary of Authentic Brands Group, the company that controls much of Presley’s intellectual property, including his name, image and likeness rights, alongside other companies holding rights to his music. As reported by Billboard, the plaintiffs allege that Anthropic, the company behind the AI chatbot Claude, infringed the copyrights of 274 songs associated with Presley, including some of his best-known hits, such as ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love’, ‘All Shook Up’, ‘Don’t Be Cruel’, ‘A Little Less Conversation’, ‘Return To Sender’ and ‘(You’re The) Devil In Disguise’. The lawsuit claims that Anthropic used copyrighted compositions and lyrics to train its AI models without obtaining permission or paying the relevant rights holders, and that the technology is capable of generating unauthorised versions of existing songs. Anthropic has not publicly responded to the...