Elvis rightsholders sue Anthropic for stealing songs and leaving them in Heartbreak Hotel

Blue Suede Shoes Music, the company managing the catalog of Elvis Presley, has filed a lawsuit against Anthropic for copyright infringement. The filing alleges that the AI startup used the lyrics of 274 Elvis songs to train its Claude models without authorization or compensation. This case represents another legal challenge regarding the use of intellectual property in generative AI development, as publishers continue to test the boundaries of fair use for model training data.