Now that Judge Lee rejected Concord Music’s belated motion to amend the complaint (to include use of shadow libraries), Anthropic has filed its answer to the already filed first amended complaint. Anthropic includes most of the same defenses it raised in the Bartz case, including fair use and innocent infringement. But it has added 6 … Continue reading Anthropic raises 20 affirmative defenses, including fair use, innocent infringement, copyright misuse, and due process violation for damages