Claude admitted it: the remakes 'keep landing very close to the originals'

The filing quotes Claude's own verdict on its remakes: asked to update specific songs 'for a modern audience,' it produced versions with 'same structure, same hooks reused with light rewording, and full sets of verses/choruses/bridges' — and conceded that was 'edging past inspired by into reproducing the copyrighted song, even when the words are swapped out.'

The case, ABE EPE LLC v. Anthropic, is described as the most prominent legal action yet brought on behalf of a single musician, and it follows earlier publisher and label suits against Anthropic over lyrics by artists from the Beatles to Taylor Swift.