# Anthropic Asks Court to Shield Its AI Training From a $3 Billion Copyright Suit

- slug: anthropic-asks-court-to-shield-its-ai-training-from-a-3-billion-copyright-suit
- date: 2026-04-22
- category: Artificial Intelligence

While Anthropic argues in court that training on copyrighted songs was fair use, a different court is being asked to rule on its right to own code its own AI wrote — and developers just showed they do not need Anthropic to have either.

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