Owners of Elvis Presley’s music sue Anthropic over use of songs to train AI models

The owners of Elvis Presley’s music catalog are all shook up about Anthropic’s use of 274 of the King’s songs to train artificial intelligence models without permission and are seeking legal relief. Read more trending news The lawsuit, filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, seeks a jury trial and $41.1 million -- $150,000 per song -- in damages, The New York Times reported.The owners of the music -- Authentic Brands Group, Raleigh Music Publishing, multiple trusts and at least one person -- accused Anthropic of copyright infringement.“The Elvis plaintiffs bring this action to enforce these exclusive rights against the defendant that has built its entire business model based on copyright infringement at a scale never seen before,” lead attorney Richard Busch wrote in the complaint, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “The Elvis Plaintiffs are deeply protective of these iconic songs.”Anthropic, the company that created the chatbot Claude, is