The deal only ends part of the suit, but it's a start for the embattled AI industry.

Anthropic has partially settled a lawsuit with music publishers, agreeing to bolster copyright protections in its AI model.

The AI company still argues that training Claude on copyrighted material constitutes fair use.

Publishers want to prevent the use of copyrighted content for AI training. However, the court battle is far from over. The music publishers who are suing Anthropic want to make su

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has reached an agreement with Universal Music and other music publishers over its use of "guardrails" to keep its chatbot Claude from generating copyrighted song lyrics,

Under the agreement signed by Anthropic on Thursday, the AI company says it will maintain the guardrails it has already implemented that aim to prevent its AI models from infringi

Anthropic and the record labels that sued it over copyright concerns agree the Amazon-backed AI firm's products can't recite protected music or make derivative work.

While the case is proceeding, Anthropic's Claude will no longer provide lyrics to songs owned by the music publishers or new lyrics based on copyrighted material.

Anthropic has partly resolved a legal disagreement that saw the AI startup draw the ire of the music industry. In October 2023, a group of music publishers, including Universal Music and ABKCO, filed a copyright infringement complaint against Anthropic.