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The licensing group that owns the rights to Elvis Presley<\/a>\u2019s music and license has filed a $41 million lawsuit against AI company Anthropic. The Tennessee-based Authentic Brands Group alleges that Anthropic infringed on their copyright by training its AI model Claude on 274 of Presley\u2019s songs without permission, including \u201cCan\u2019t Help Falling in Love,\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t Be Cruel,\u201d \u201cFarther Along,\u201d \u201cIf You Think I Don\u2019t Need You,\u201d and \u201cRun On.\u201d<\/p>\n The lawsuit, filed on October 23 and viewed by Pitchfork, seeks roughly $150,000 in damages per song, adding up to $41 million. Authentic Brands Group filed alongside a number of co-plaintiffs with ownership over Presley rights. \u201cThe Elvis Plaintiffs bring this action to enforce these exclusive rights against the defendant that has built its entire business model based on copyright infringement at a scale never seen before,\u201d lead attorney Richard Busch wrote in a statement. \u201cThe Elvis Plaintiffs are deeply protective of these iconic songs.\u201d Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for Anthropic for comment.<\/p>\n