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Elvis Presley

Posted on 30 October 2026 by Brian Walsh

The owners of Elvis Presley‘s music have sued Anthropic, accusing the AI company of copyright infringement.

Authentic Brands Group, which controls most of Elvis’ intellectual property, including his name, image and likeness rights, filed the lawsuit through one of its subsidiaries. The lawsuit accuses Anthropic of using 274 of Elvis’ songs to train its models without permission or paying the relevant rights holders.

According to Billboard, the plaintiffs allege that Anthropic, the company behind the AI chatbot Claude, infringed the copyrights of 274 songs associated with Elvis, including some of his best-known hits, such as “Can’t Help Falling In Love,” “All Shook Up,” “Don’t Be Cruel,” “A Little Less Conversation,” “Return To Sender” and “(You’re The) Devil In Disguise.”

“The Elvis Plaintiffs bring this action to enforce these exclusive rights against the defendant that has built its entire business model based on copyright infringement at a scale never seen before,” said Richard Busch, lead attorney for the plaintiffs.

The lawsuit also alleges that Claude has continued reproducing copyrighted material despite Anthropic introducing safeguards intended to prevent the chatbot from generating existing song lyrics.

The plaintiffs are seeking statutory damages of up to $150,000 for each of the 274 songs, amounting to approximately $41.1 million.

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