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This week, we've got some great stories for you guys.

We have a deep dive into the Sony Warner Chappell lawsuit against Anthropic and what that means for the future of copyright in the AI era.

And we're going to revisit our favorite case, USA versus Live Nation, and look at a little discovery fight that's kind of brewing up between the states and the concert promoter giants.

Mike, let's talk about

I'm hoping, you know, that at least you just know something about music lyrics.

The music business just opened another front in the war with AI.

On August 28th, Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed a federal complaint in the Northern District of California against Anthropic.

the company behind the Claude chatbot.

I- After I got out of high school, uh, early 20s, I moved down here to Florence to The Shoals, and I've been here ever since.

And so the whole time that I was making music in Nashville, either from songwriting for EMI and BMG and Warner/Chappell, either doing that or doing my solo work or doing The Civil Wars, uh, project, I was driving back and forth.

You know, it's just two and a half hours, and I'd drive up and I'd sleep on couches for two or three days and then come back home.

So I never actually, never actually left here.

Take care.

Hometown, the Noel Coward podcast is a Noel Coward Foundation production hosted by James Harvey and Julie Gambling, produced by James Harvey, music courtesy of Warner Chappell.

When I was on mine, it was a different time.

But I remember wanting to go right with people and my A&R guy from Warner Chappell just being like, dude, just make your fucking record and put it out.

Like...

You know what I mean? And Nashville, that was a Los Angeles kind of vibe where it was like, no, you're the artist.

As well as independent record labels, publishers, and digital content licensors.

Known for her sound counsel, integrity, and mentorship, she's also served as a business affairs exec at Atlantic Records, Warner Chappell Music, and Warner Records.

Recent representations include advising Grammy Award-winning writer-producer Rodney Darkchild Jerkins in the sale of his iconic catalog and handling Colombian megastar Karol G's global collaboration with Reebok.

Next up, we have Karen Mitchell.

And I'm curious about how do you go about building these collaborations and mentorships? Is that a big part of working in the MXM world?

I mean, I will say I feel so lucky that they, um, 'cause they, they kind of, I, I was signed to Warner Chappell as a songwriter, and then I got asked, like, "Would you wanna join this kind of, um, collect- writer collective called Wolf Cousins?" Where I was, I was the only girl at the time.

It was me and, and eight other producers.

And then it was very much like, "Well, we want you to just, like, work on your craft.

I definitely appreciate that.

And I appreciate Warner Chappell for stepping in and making that do what it do.

And I ain't going to leave Nitty out because this wouldn't be possible without him either.

So we appreciate everybody involved.

Domingo, 20 de septiembre.

Sony Music Publishing y Warner Chappell han presentado una demanda de 48 páginas contra Anthropic y sus fundadores a título personal, reclamando hasta ciento cincuenta mil dólares por canción por el manejo que Claude hace de letras musicales.

Es la reclamación de daños más específica que la industria musical haya presentado contra un laboratorio de frontera y llega en el momento en que el reloj de la salida a bolsa de Anthropic avanza públicamente.

Para la geopolítica del financiamiento en seguridad de IA, le damos la palabra a Amber.

De vuelta con Edo para el frente legal.

Sony Music Publishing y Warner Chappell han presentado una demanda de cuarenta y ocho páginas contra Anthropic, nombrando a la compañía y a sus fundadores de forma personal y reclamando hasta ciento cincuenta mil dólares por canción por letras utilizadas en datos de entrenamiento.

Es la reclamación económica más específica que la industria musical ha hecho hasta ahora contra un laboratorio de frontera.

Amber tiene la historia de ingeniería.