Anthropic Wins California Transfer for Lyrics Copyright Lawsuit

Anthropic PBC convinced a Tennessee federal judge to move music publishers’ lyrics copyright lawsuit over the artificial intelligence chatbot to a California district court.

Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr. ruled the eight music publishers, which include Universal Music Group and Concord Music Group Inc., failed to prove his court had personal jurisdiction in the opinion filed Mondaythe US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.

The judge denied Amazon.com Inc.-backed Anthropic’s dismissal motion on those grounds but granted its venue change request, transferring the case to the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

The music ...