The Music Industry vs. Claude: Inside the UMG-Anthropic Copyright Fight When Universal Music Group first sued Anthropic in October 2023, it looked like one more skirmish in the AI copyright wars. Nearly three years later, it has grown into one of the most consequential and most tangled legal battles over how AI companies are allowed to build their models. Here's where things actually stand. How It Started: 500 Songs and a Chatbot That Wouldn't Stop Quoting Them In October 202