Back in 1975, singer-songwriter Barry Manilow wrote and sang a song, I Write the Songs. Forty-eight years later, Barry might be out of a job with AI now writing songs. Universal Music https://www.universalmusic.com sued AI startup Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com over “systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics,” per a filing in a Tennessee federal court in October 2023. One example from the lawsuit: When a user asks Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude about the lyr
