Elvis Presley's music owners sued Anthropic for about $41M, alleging Claude was trained on 274 songs.

Authentic Brands Group, which co-owns Elvis Presley's music catalog, has sued Anthropic in federal court, seeking about $41 million — $150,000 per work, the maximum statutory damages for willful infringement, across 274 songs. The suit targets both training and outputs, alleging Claude reproduced material from nearly every song in the catalog even after Anthropic added guardrails following earlier publisher suits. It matters because it tests the limits of Anthropic's 2025 fair-use win on book training: that ruling did not cover near-copies of lyrics in outputs, so the case may turn on how reliably its guardrails block them.

• Rohan Paul2026-10-25 08:36