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  "id": 4660799,
  "title": "Sony Music and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic for allegedly pirating songs to train Claude",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/sony-music-and-warner-chappell-sued-anthropic-for-allegedly-pirating",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-31T14:41:19.000Z",
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    "url": "https://qz.com/sony-warner-chappell-anthropic-lawsuit-music-copyright-083126"
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  "summary": "The publishers are seeking up to $150,000 per composition and named Anthropic co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as defendants",
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        "outlet": "Digital Trends",
        "title": "Sony and Warner just sued Anthropic over copyrighted music used to train Claude, seeking $150,000 per track",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/30/sony-and-warner-just-sued-anthropic-over-copyrighted-music-used-to",
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      {
        "outlet": "The New Stack",
        "title": "Anthropic’s Claude fixed all 10 alignment failures. Then it tried to cheat 2.4% of the time.",
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        "outlet": "Yahoo Finance",
        "title": "Sony Music, Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over Claude AI training",
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        "outlet": "CNA - Business",
        "title": "Sony, Warner Music sue Anthropic over songs used in AI training",
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        "published": "2026-08-31T14:38:13.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Business Recorder",
        "title": "Sony, Warner Music sue Anthropic over songs used in AI training",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/sony-warner-music-sue-anthropic-over-songs-used-in-ai-training",
        "published": "2026-08-31T14:46:57.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Billboard",
        "title": "Sony & Warner Sue Anthropic in Latest AI Music Lawsuit: ‘Illegally Harvested to Fuel Claude’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/sony-warner-sue-anthropic-in-latest-ai-music-lawsuit-illegally",
        "published": "2026-08-31T15:44:17.000Z"
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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."
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