Elvis Presley rights holders sue Anthropic over alleged use of 274 songs to train Claude

On October 23 rights holders for Elvis Presley's music, including Authentic Brands Group and Raleigh Music Publishing, sued Anthropic in the US, alleging it used lyrics from 274 Presley songs, including "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "All Shook Up", to train Claude without permission. The plaintiffs seek the statutory maximum of $150,000 per song, about $41m in total, and also allege circumvention of technical protections and removal of copyright management information. The complaint says Anthropic's business model rests on copyright infringement at scale. Anthropic said it disagrees with the claims and intends to defend the case fully; it has argued fair use in similar cases.

The first report we collected was on 2026-10-26 (Beijing time), the latest on 2026-10-30: 10-26 3 reports, 10-27 4 reports, 10-30 1 report. It was #10 in the 2026-W44 weekly report (2026-10-26 – 2026-11-01).

Earlier weekly hotspots about Anthropic: 2026-W43 — Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation; 2026-W43 — After losing Microsoft, Nscale is reported to be negotiating a second large compute deal with Anthropic; 2026-W44 — Anthropic files its S-1 publicly and plans a Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT. Each has its own page linked in “the story so far” above.

8 outlets covered it. The earliest report we collected is “Anthropic sued for allegedly using 274 Elvis Presley songs to train AI models” (Guardian Tech, 2026-10-26 Beijing time). Sources include Guardian Tech, Engadget, t3n, Tom's Guide, The Next Web. All 8 source links are listed on this page in date order.