Sony accuses Anthropic of 'brazen campaign' to train Claude on its music — and wants up to $150,000 a song
In a new lawsuit, Sony Music and Warner Chappell say Anthropic used "thousands upon thousands" of songs to train Claude, including "Eye of the Tiger."
Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging that the AI company engaged in a brazen campaign to train its Claude models using stolen, copyrighted works. The publishing companies claim that Anthropic illegally obtained thousands of songs, including popular tracks like "Eye of the Tiger," "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "All I Want for Christmas is You," and "Paper Rings," through various methods such as digital archives Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror.
Sony Music and Warner Chappell assert that Anthropic's use of these copyrighted materials allows Claude to generate AI-generated lyrics that could potentially compete with human-made songs. The companies are seeking a jury trial and statutory damages, requesting up to $150,000 for each composition Anthropic used in training Claude.
This case adds to the growing number of copyright lawsuits targeting the AI industry as companies seek vast amounts of data to train their models.
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- Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic theverge.com
- Music publishers sue Anthropic, allege "blantant theft" of copyrighted music axios.com
- Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft techcrunch.com
- Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic, Dario Amodei, and Benjamin Mann, alleging tens of thousands of copyrighted songs were used to train Claude's LLMs (Tim Ingham/Music Business Worldwide) musicbusinessworldwide.com
