At long last we finally have a decision on Concord Music’s motion for preliminary injunction. Judge Lee denied it.
The motion was originally filed on Nov. 16, 2023 in the Middle District of Tennessee and was supported by amici briefs of stakeholders in the music industry. On Aug. 1, 2024, the motion was refiled in the Northern District of California after the case was transferred there.
The parties agreed by stipulation to maintaining guardrails (aka post-training filtering) to stop regurgitation of lyrics of musical works whose copyrights the plaintiffs own.
That left the motion as to Anthropic’s training of models. Judge Lee found the plaintiffs’ request on the scope of the motion too shifting, amorphous, and enormous:
