The copyright arguments really trip me. I've always loved law and have had a deep interest in copyright law for 30+ years. I feel it's a really critical legal area in modern times, and when Claude tries to argue with me about copyright it really cheeses me off. I didn't ask any copyright questions and I'm well aware of regulations. It refused to share a link with me because it thought the link was copyright protected.

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user_7832 40 minutes ago | parent [-]

I've asked claude for a translation of a song with Brazilian Portuguese lyrics, and claude has very helpfully gone out of its way to say that due to legal reasons, it will never share the actual lyrics with me.

It's fun when you want to know what the lyrics are to a song and get treated like a criminal.

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no-name-here 27 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> … claude has very helpfully gone out of its way to say that due to legal reasons, it will never share the actual lyrics with me. … It's fun when you want to know what the lyrics are to a song and get treated like a criminal.

Anthropic has been in court for years being sued over lyrics:

2023 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/19/music-law...

2026 https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/us-music-publish...

	▲	user_7832 23 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Oh, for sure. I'm well aware about lyrics copyright, or how even google (iirc) was used after a company purposely put wrong lyrics and could prove google was scraping it. I'm not doubting the law. What I am saying, is, when a user uploads a screenshot of lyrics and goes "hey can you translate this please?", the LLM shouldn't go out of its way to make a hue and cry as if it's being asked on how to rob a bank while murdering baby kittens.
	▲	Godsend69 a few seconds ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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user_7832 39 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Oh, and if that wasn't enough, I've had Claude refuse to cite the freaking Bible.

The famously copyrighted piece of text that definitely isn't intended to have its word spread.

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mminer237 24 minutes ago | parent [-]

As messed up as it it, the KJV is copyrighted in the UK by the Crown still, and most newer translations are copyrighted worldwide by their translators. Obviously if you're using the Textus Receptus or WLC directly there's no copyright.

	▲	user_7832 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That's a fascinating (if not somewhat disappointing) thing to learn! To be honest I'm not a Bible scholar, I had asked claude for the full version of "ask and you shall receive" (apparently Mathew 7:7). I guess Claude somehow knew this KJV copyright thing perhaps? Still bizzare nonetheless to learn.