Anthropic Pushes Fair Use Defense In Music Cos.' IP Fight

law360.com1d ago

By Hailey Konnath ( April 21, 2026, 10:37 PM EDT) -- Anthropic PBC has asked a California federal judge to find that its use of copyrighted materials to train its tool Claude is "transformative" fair use under copyright law, comparing Claude's learning to how humans learn from reading and internalizing the themes of various works....

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