AI company Anthropic sued over alleged Elvis Presley copyright infringement

3 hours agoElvis Presley rights holders sue AI giant Anthropic over alleged use of 274 songs

Elvis Presley may have left the building nearly 50 years ago, but his music is now at the center of a multimillion-dollar legal showdown over artificial intelligence.

Rights holders to hundreds of songs made famous by the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll have filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against AI giant Anthropic, accusing the company of using protected music and lyrics to train its Claude AI models without permission.

The lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court in California, alleges Anthropic unlawfully copied 274 songs associated with