Anthropic has partially settled a lawsuit with music publishers, agreeing to bolster copyright protections in its AI model.

Music publishers allege that Anthropic violated copyright policies by using hundreds of songs to train its Claude chatbot.

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has reached an agreement with Universal Music and other music publishers over its use of "guardrails" to keep its chatbot Claude from generating copyrighted song lyrics,

The AI company still argues that training Claude on copyrighted material constitutes fair use.

While the case is proceeding, Anthropic's Claude will no longer provide lyrics to songs owned by the music publishers or new lyrics based on copyrighted material.

Anthropic and the record labels that sued it over copyright concerns agree the Amazon-backed AI firm's products can't recite protected music or make derivative work.

After music publishers sued AI company Anthropic over the alleged use of lyrics to train its AI system, a deal has finally been reached.

Amazon-supported artificial intelligence company Anthropic has inked an agreement with Universal Music, ABKCO and Concord on using “guardrails” to prevent Anthropic chatbot Claude from infringing on copyrighted lyrics, reported Reuters.

Anthropic has partly resolved a legal disagreement that saw the AI startup draw the ire of the music industry. In October 2023, a group of music publishers, including Universal Music and ABKCO, filed a copyright infringement complaint against Anthropic.