Anthropic Fights to Shield CEO, Piracy Data in AI Copyright Suit

Anthropic PBC urged a federal judge to bar music publishers suing the AI company for copyright infringement from deposing their CEO and publicly disclosing data it extracted from pirate libraries.

Anthropic argues publishers’ demands are part of a bid to turn their case into “Bartz II,” referring to book authors’ copyright lawsuit the company recently settled for $1.5 billion. Plaintiffs don’t need to depose CEO Dario Amodei because they will question other employees with more relevant knowledge, according to a joint statements filed Tuesday and Wednesday seeking intervention by the US District Court for the Northern District of California. ...