Anthropic is asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit brought by music publishers, arguing that training its AI models on song lyrics falls within fair use, according to reporting by Complete Music Update. The company is leaning on the same broad copyright defence that helped it secure an earlier win over book training, after a federal judge in California ruled in June 2025 that Anthropic’s use of books to train Claude was "exceedingly transformative" and did not unlawfully reproduce the authors’ work verbatim, CNBC reported.

The dispute also highlights a shift in how rights-holders are arguing against generative AI. According to Complete Music Update, publishers have increasingly turned to a market-dilution theory, saying AI systems can erode licensing revenue even when they do not copy works word for word. That approach has gained traction partly because other arguments, including claims based on exact reproduction, have found mixed success in court.

In a separate development, the Regional Court of Hamburg has granted Teradyne Robotics a preliminary injunction in its copyright case against Elite Robots Deutschland GmbH, according to company statements and reporting by The Robot Report. The court barred the German unit from offering or distributing software and products containing the disputed code in Germany and ordered it to disclose details of the alleged infringement and the customers it supplied.

The ruling comes amid a broader wave of litigation in robotics, where companies are increasingly using copyright and patent claims against overseas rivals. Meanwhile, TorrentFreak reported that dozens of pirate streaming sites have gone offline after backend providers stopped operating, leaving many pages returning a 521 error. Some of the affected sites were zombie brands, reviving the names of long-defunct pirate services that still draw large audiences despite their shaky foundations.

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