AI Roundup: After German Chancellor and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, now the US President Joe Biden may also skip the UK’s AI Summit; Music publishers sue Anthropic AI for using copyrighted lyrics and much more happened in the AI universe today.
Major music publishers, including Universal Music Group, Concord Music Group, and ABKCO, have filed a $75 million lawsuit against Anthropic, an AI company, for alleged copyright infringement. The publishers claim that Anthropic copied and distributed lyrics from over 500 songs by renowned artists without permission. This lawsuit marks the first time a music publisher has taken legal action against an AI company over the use of lyrics.
A British filmmaker has asked a New York court to impose sanctions on the record labels accusing him of infringing copyrights related to compositions by The Rolling Stones.