ELVIS LEFT THE BUILDING — NOW HIS ESTATE WANTS $41 MILLION FROM CLAUDE

The owners of Elvis Presley's music sued Anthropic on October 23, accusing the company of training its Claude models on 274 of his songs — including 'Can't Help Falling in Love,' 'All Shook Up' and 'Don't Be Cruel' — without permission or payment. The suit was filed by a subsidiary of Authentic Brands Group, which controls much of Presley's intellectual property, and seeks up to $150,000 per song, about $41.1 million in total. Billboard first reported the filing.

The complaint says Claude kept reproducing the songs even after Anthropic added safeguards: asked to recreate them 'for a modern audience,' the chatbot produced near-replicas of the originals. Anthropic has not responded to the suit, though it has previously argued that training on copyrighted material can be protected under US fair-use law.