The owners of Elvis Presley’s music filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, a company behind Claude AI, for the alleged unauthorized use of Elvis Presley’s catalog on Friday, Oct. 23. Accusations came from the AI company using 274 of his songs to train its models without permission.
Authentic Brands Group, which owns Presley’s name, image and likeness rights, is among the parties involved. Other companies owning rights to Presley’s music also filed lawsuits.
According to NME, Anthropic infringed on Presley’s best-known hits, such as “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” “All Shook Up,” “Don’t Be Cruel,” “A Little Less Conversation,” “Return to Sender” and “(You’re the) Devil in Disguise.” The lawsuit states that the AI company used copyrighted compositions and lyrics to train its AI models without paying or obtaining permission to use Presley’s songs. It also alleges that the AI technology will generate unauthorized versions of Presley’s existing songs.
Anthropic has not responded to the lawsuit, but the company previously stated that training AI on copyrighted material can be protected under U.S. fair use law.
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