A two-decade long legal case is finally coming to a conclusion, courtesy of the European Court of Justice. The European Union's high court ruled that a non-licensed use of a two-second sample from Kraftwerk’s 1977 track 'Metall auf Metall' on Moses Pelham-produced 1997 single 'Nur mir', performed by Sabrina Setlur, was legal under the EU's provision on "pastiche." The case was initiated by electronic-music composers Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider from German pioneering band Kraftwerk in 1999....

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has filed a motion for summary judgment and opposition to a motion filed previously by music publishers for partial summary judgment with the US District Court for the Northern ⁠District of ​California in the copyright infringement lawsuit brought by music publishing companies Universal Music Group (UMG), Concord ‌and ABKCO. The publishers sued Anthropic in 2023, accusing the company of using a significant number of copyrighted lyrics to songs they own o...

A record number of authors and other copyright holders have filed claims for compensation for the use of works covered by the $1.5 billion settlement between AI firm Anthropic and a class of authors, alongside their publishers, in the Bartz v. Anthropic lawsuit, according to a ​filing with the US District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco. The April 16 filing reads: "In accordance with the Joint Case Management Statement filed on January 15, 2026, Plaintiffs respectf...