Anthropic Dodges Music Publishers’ Piracy Claim in AI Suit (1)

Anthropic PBC convinced a federal judge to deny music publishers’ bid to expand their copyright infringement lawsuit against the AI company to include a piracy claim.

Amendment is inappropriate because the publishers failed to diligently investigate the theory of liability based on Anthropic’s downloading of works, Judge Eumi K. Lee said Wednesday at a hearing in San Jose.

Publishers didn’t seek discovery into Anthropic’s use of the file-sharing tool BitTorrent earlier in the case, even though “the door had been open,” Lee said from the bench.

Publishers counsel, Nick Hailey of Oppenheim & Zebrak LLP, argued the late push to ...