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Our news post on the Presley rightsholders' suit said the credit-stripping claim matters most. The best case against that is the record of DMCA credit claims against AI firms, which mostly haven't survived. Here is that case put fairly, and why we still back the claim.
AI
A desk review, from vendor pages read on 29 Oct 2026, of the lyric tools songwriters actually reach for, judged on output ownership, training-data stance, price and usefulness. No scores yet. Our view is that a non-AI writing reference plus your own drafts beats paying for generated verses, and that the lyrics lawsuits against Anthropic are the context every buyer should know.
Music tech
Authentic Brands Group's Presley entity and several publishers have sued Anthropic, which makes Claude, alleging it trained on lyrics to 274 songs Presley recorded and stripped songwriter credits. It is the latest in a run of publisher suits against the company.
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