Claude now refuses copyrighted lyrics and known characters, offers originals instead

petrusenko_max · x · 2026-09-02

Anthropic has updated Claude's guardrails: it now declines to reproduce copyrighted song lyrics verbatim or draw well-known characters and logos, offering original alternatives instead. The change aligns with ongoing lawsuits over training on song lyric databases.

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