BMG, Swift, and the Billionaire: AI Copyright's Three-Front War
BMG's lawsuit against Anthropic joins a widening legal front where music, identity, and output rights are each forcing courts to price AI's costs.
- BMG's lawsuit frames AI training on copyrighted lyrics as infringement, not fair use — a theory that could implicate every major LLM.
- Taylor Swift's trademark strategy bypasses the training-data debate entirely, targeting AI outputs that trade on her identity.
- Courts are simultaneously adjudicating input liability, output ownership, and platform responsibility — without a shared doctrinal framework.