According to a court filing, US District Judge Eumi Lee last week (October 8) denied a motion by Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord Music and ABKCO Music to amend their 2023 complaint. Bloomberg Law reported, citing a hearing in San Jose, that Judge Lee found the amendment to be inappropriate because the music publishers failed to investigate the piracy allegations based on Anthropic’s downloading of works.
Source: Piracy claims can’t be added to music publishers’ copyright case against Anthropic, says Judge