Amazon-backed Anthropic hit with class-action lawsuit over copyright infringement
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Anthropic, the Amazon -backed artificial intelligence startup, on Monday was hit with a class-action lawsuit in California federal court over alleged copyright infringement. This weeks case also follows another lawsuit brought against Anthropic last October, in which Universal Music sued the startup over "systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics," per a filing in a Tennessee federal court. The lawsuit also named Gloria Gaynors "I Will Survive" as an example of Anthropics alleged copyright infringement, as Universal owns the rights to its lyrics. In December, The New York Times filed a suit against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging intellectual property violations related to its journalistic content appearing in ChatGPT training data. Media outlets and content platforms including Fortune, Time, Entrepreneur, The Texas Tribune, Der Spiegel and WordPress.com were the first to join the companys "Publishers Program."
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