Anthropic Fights to Shield User Data From Music Publishers

Anthropic PBC refuses to hand over identifying information about users to music publishers suing for copyright infringement, telling a federal court that disclosure would violate privacy law.

Publishers including Universal Music Corp. and Concord Music Group Inc. fail to demonstrate a compelling need for usernames and email addresses of those who prompted Anthropic’s AI chatbot to produce song lyrics, and are rehashing arguments already rejected by the court, according to a joint statement filed Monday seeking intervention by the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The publishers say the data is necessary to discover users who repeatedly ...