Anthropic Asks Court to Pause Music Publishers’ Second Lawsuit

March 11, 2026, 8:54 PM UTC

AI developer Anthropic PBC asked a federal court to pause a second lawsuit brought by a group of music publishers, sharing “overlapping copyright claims,” until key issues are resolved in the first lawsuit.

Music publishers who first sued Anthropic in 2023 over its AI models sued the company again in January asserting the “same infringement theories already being litigated” while adding a claim alleging illegal downloads of song lyrics, the tech firm said in a motion to stay filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Allowing both cases to proceed side by side would ...

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