Sony Music, Warner accuse Anthropic of ‘blatant theft’ in major new lawsuit
Some of the world’s biggest music publishers have launched a fresh lawsuit against Anthropic, accusing the artificial intelligence giant of conducting “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history”. The case adds to the legal challenges facing Anthropic as the firm eyes a potential blockbuster initial public offering, as the AI industry confronts growing…
Leading music publishers have filed a major lawsuit against the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, alleging the firm "unlawfully torrented, scraped and downloaded" copyrighted works on an unprecedented scale. The 35 publishers, including Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music, claim the actions helped Anthropic develop its Claude AI models and reap substantial profits.
They are seeking an injunction and statutory damages. Anthropic responded, stating it would vigorously defend itself in court. This lawsuit follows a series of copyright claims against Anthropic, with other music publishers also suing the company over song lyrics and artists' works. Anthropic has previously settled a case involving authors for $1.5 billion, but a judge ruled that using legally purchased books for training language models was permissible.
The lawsuit highlights the growing pushback from the music industry over AI's use of human-made material for model training.
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- Sony accuses Anthropic of 'brazen campaign' to train Claude on its music — and wants up to $150,000 a song businessinsider.com
- Sony Music, Warner accuse Anthropic of ‘blatant theft’ in major new lawsuit scmp.com
- Anthropic Sued By Sony, Warner For Allegedly Stealing Tens of Thousands of Songs, Torrenting Copyrighted Works yro.slashdot.org
- 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
- Anthropic sued by music publishers over Claude training techinasia.com
