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  "id": 4222475,
  "title": "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)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/sony-music-and-warner-chappell-sue-anthropic-dario-amodei-and",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-29T15:30:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/now-sony-music-publishing-and-warner-chappell-sue-anthropic-in-multi-billion-dollar-lawsuit-one-of-the-largest-and-most-blatant-ongoing-thefts-of-intellectual-property-in-history/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have joined forces to sue Anthropic, home of Claude, over what the publishers call …",
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      {
        "outlet": "Axios",
        "title": "Music publishers sue Anthropic, allege \"blantant theft\" of copyrighted music",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/music-publishers-sue-anthropic-allege-blantant-theft-of-copyrighted",
        "published": "2026-08-29T16:10:34.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Verge",
        "title": "Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/sony-music-and-warner-chappell-are-suing-anthropic",
        "published": "2026-08-29T18:19:53.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "TechCrunch",
        "title": "Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/sony-music-warner-sue-anthropic-alleging-a-brazen-campaign-of",
        "published": "2026-08-29T18:41:59.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}