Is training AI on song lyrics fair use? US court weighs question as India proposes mandatory licensing

On October 21, in a lawsuit brought by music publishers, Anthropic asked a US federal judge to rule that its use of copyrighted song lyrics to train its chatbot Claude constitutes ‘fair use’. US District Judge Eumi Lee heard arguments from both sides in San Jose but did not issue a ruling, Reuters reported . This case was filed by Universal Music Group (UMG), Concord and ABKCO in 2023, and they alleged that Anthropic used lyrics from hundreds of songs by artists such as Beyoncé, the Rolling Ston