Copyright holders of Elvis Presley's songs, including a group of Authentic Brands, have filed a class action lawsuit against artificial intelligence developer Anthropic. The company is accused of illegally using the lyrics of 274 pieces of music to train language models. According to NBC News, the plaintiffs believe that Anthropic used the copyrighted material without the owner's permission. The company itself does not agree with the claims made. The legality of the use of the texts will have to be examined by the court. This isn't the developer's first conflict with the music industry. In the past, Sony Music and Warner Music have filed similar lawsuits. A separate dispute concerned literary works: in 2025, Anthropic pledged to pay $1.5 billion to authors for misuse of texts. The new lawsuit expands the range of claims against the practice of training artificial intelligence on the works of others. Now the subject of the litigation is the rights to hundreds of songs, including the legacy of one of the most famous artists.

Copyright holders of Elvis Presley's songs, including a group of Authentic Brands, have filed a class action lawsuit against artificial intelligence developer Anthropic. The company is accused of illegally using the lyrics of 274 pieces of music to train language models. According to NBC News, the plaintiffs believe that Anthropic used the copyrighted material without the owner's permission. The company itself does not agree with the claims made. The legality of the use of the texts will have to be examined by the court. This isn't the developer's first conflict with the music industry. In the past, Sony Music and Warner Music have filed similar lawsuits. A separate dispute concerned literary works: in 2025, Anthropic pledged to pay $1.5 billion to authors for misuse of texts. The new lawsuit expands the range of claims against the practice of training artificial intelligence on the works of others. Now the subject of the litigation is the rights to hundreds of songs, including the legacy of one of the most famous artists.