Sony & Warner Sue Anthropic in Latest AI Music Lawsuit: ‘Illegally Harvested to Fuel Claude’
In the newest case over AI music training, the two music giants claim Claude was "built on copyright theft," ranging from iconic Christmas songs to Taylor Swift hits.
Sony Music and Warner Music Group have filed a new copyright lawsuit against AI company Anthropic, claiming the company illegally collected over 20,000 of their songs to train its models. Anthropic allegedly used songs such as Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" and Taylor Swift's "Paper Rings" in its model training.
The lawsuit alleges that Anthropic's actions have caused significant harm to music publishers and songwriters. Anthropic's founder and CEO, Dario Amodei, and co-founder Benjamin Mann are named as defendants. Anthropic claims that training generative AI models is a form of fair use, similar to a previous case where the company paid a $1.5 billion settlement for infringing copyrights.
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