Sony and Warner Music finally generate an Anthropic lawsuit

Sony Music and Warner Music have joined Universal Music Group in filing a lawsuit against Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company. The publishers claim that Anthropic is using their copyrighted music to train its AI models, resulting in near-identical or exact replicas of the original works. This alleged infringement has led to Anthropic's valuation reaching $2 trillion.

Anthropic has been accused of downloading lyrics and sheet music from torrent sites, including a Michael Jackson songbook from the Pirate Bay. The AI company has faced criticism for allegedly destructively scanning millions of books for its Project Panama effort, which involved uploading and destroying less common titles. Sony and Warner argue that Anthropic's actions are harming their market and have increased their demand for a higher settlement amount, emphasizing that $1.5 billion, the amount they received from a previous class action lawsuit, is not sufficient to deter further infringement.