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WHEN THE CODE GETS CREATIVE: ANTHROPIC, AI OWNERSHIP, AND THE LAW  By Jessica Debrah In April 2023, a song called Heart on My Sleeve shot across TikTok and streaming platforms like wildfire. It sounded like Drake and The Weeknd teaming up for a surprise drop. Except neither artist had ever stepped into a studio for it. The track was written, composed, and “performed” entirely by AI. A few years earlier, in Christie’s auction room, a solemn-looking gentleman with blurry edges portrait titled Edmond de Belamy sold for over $432,000 and yet again the “artist” was not human, but a generative algorithm trained on thousands of other works. From viral songs to record-breaking paintings, AI is no longer just assisting creativity, it’s producing it. Who then owns these works? Who gets the royalties? And in a world where the “creator” could be a line of code, does the current Copyright Laws even have the right tools to keep up? Anthropic isn’t a household name like ChatGPT or M...