Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songs
AI company faces multibillion dollar lawsuit over misuse of copyrighted songs to train Claude models All AI wants for Christmas is a vast back catalogue of songs without paying for it, according to a multibillion dollar lawsuit against the startup behind the Claude chatbot. Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell, music publishers who manage the copyright of songs on behalf of songwriters and…
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude chatbot, is facing a multibillion dollar lawsuit from Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell. The publishers claim Anthropic misused "tens of thousands" of copyrighted songs to train Claude's AI models. The lawsuit, filed in California, accuses Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei of illegally downloading and scraping lyrics from songs like Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" and Marvin Gaye's "Ain't No Mountain High Enough."
The publishers also allege Anthropic downloaded 7 million copies of books, including copyrighted lyrics and sheet music. The case is similar to a previous $1.5bn settlement Anthropic reached with US authors for copyright infringement. The music publishers seek damages of up to $150,000 per infringed work and $25,000 for each removal or alteration of identifying data. Anthropic has denied the allegations and vowed to defend itself in court.
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