Anthropic argues using music lyrics to train AI is fair use in motion for summary judgment | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

( April 23, 2026, 00:13 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Anthropic argued in a motion for summary judgment that using the lyrics to music publishers' songs, along with billions of other copyrighted works, to train its artificial intelligence model Claude is "transformative" fair use. Music publishers' claim under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act also fails as a matter of law, Anthropic said. "Even after almost two years of discovery, Publishers have not identified a single work in suit from which Anthropic removed CMI. Nor have they shown that Anthropic did so with the double scienter the DMCA requires."See attached motion....

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