{
  "id": 16525550,
  "title": "Anthropic sued for allegedly stealing from The King",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/25/anthropic-sued-for-allegedly-stealing-from-the-king",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-25T14:14:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The A.V. Club",
    "slug": "the-a-v-club",
    "url": "https://www.avclub.com/anthropic-sued-copyright-infringement-elvis"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Authentic Brands Group, owners of Elvis Presley's music catalog and image, have filed a lawsuit against AI company Anthropic. According to the lawsuit, Anthropic's Claude large language model (LLM) scraped around 274 of Presley's copyrighted songs to create AI-generated content. Despite the company allegedly implementing \"guardrails\" after a previous lawsuit, Claude continued to infringe on the copyrighted material. When asked to recreate specific songs for a modern audience, Claude admitted that its output was \"very close\" to the original, with \"same structure, same hooks reused with light rewording, and full sets of verses/choruses/bridges.\" Authentic Brands Group claims the infringement is worth $150,000 per infringed song, totaling approximately $41.5 million. While the case may be seen as humans futilely trying to assert control over creative work, it highlights the growing issue of AI illegally scraping millions of copyrighted songs.",
  "summary": "The Elvis Presley estate alleges that Anthropic's Claude software is training AI with unauthorized use of the late singer's works.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}