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

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 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.

Music publishers allege that Anthropic violated copyright policies by using hundreds of songs to train its Claude chatbot.

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,