In general, AI companies defend their right to train models on unlicensed music by arguing that the training is “fair use” under copyright law, meaning that AI models do not harm the market for creators’ work. This is a complex claim...

Source [2026-06-14; web-archive]

Related: Millions of Copyrighted Songs Were Fed to AI Music Generators [2026-06-16; web-archive]

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[–] 13 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

So they're looking for a $1.5 billion settlement. Coincidentally, that's exactly what Anthropic paid for training on pirated books.

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