Oct 6 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence company

Anthropic lost a bid on Monday to dismiss parts of a copyright

infringement lawsuit brought by music publishers over

Anthropic's alleged misuse of their song lyrics in its AI

training.

U.S. District Judge Eumi Lee ruled that Universal Music Group

, Concord and ABKCO can continue pressing their claims

that Anthropic enabled its users to infringe their copyrights by

reproducing their lyrics through its chatbot Claude without

permission.

Spokespeople and attorneys for the companies did not

immediately respond to requests for comment on the decision.

The lawsuit is one of several high-stakes disputes between

copyright owners and tech companies including OpenAI, Microsoft ( MSFT )

and Meta Platforms ( META ) over the unauthorized use of copyrighted

works to train AI systems. Amazon ( AMZN )- and Google-backed Anthropic

is the first major AI company to settle one of the disputes,

agreeing in August to pay a group of authors $1.5 billion to

resolve a class action lawsuit.

The pending cases will likely revolve around whether AI systems

make "fair use" of copyrighted material by studying it to learn

to create new, transformative content. Lee's ruling on Monday

focused on the music publishers' separate argument that

Anthropic's display of their lyrics by users' request

constituted contributory or vicarious copyright infringement.

The publishers sued Anthropic in 2023, alleging that it

infringed their copyrights in lyrics from at least 500 songs by

musicians including Beyonce, the Rolling Stones and the Beach

Boys. Lee's Monday decision rejected Anthropic's request to

dismiss the publishers' secondary claims, finding the labels

plausibly argued that Anthropic could have known of its users'

alleged infringement and profited from allowing it.

The judge had previously granted Anthropic's motion to

dismiss the claims but permitted the publishers to amend them.

The case is Concord Music Group Inc v. Anthropic PBC, U.S.

District Court for the Northern District of California, No.

5:24-cv-03811.

For the music publishers: Matt Oppenheim of Oppenheim +

Zebrak

For Anthropic: Sy Damle of Latham & Watkins

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