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  "id": 4722388,
  "title": "Sony and Warner Music finally generate an Anthropic lawsuit",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/sony-and-warner-music-finally-generate-an-anthropic-lawsuit",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-31T17:56:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The A.V. Club",
    "slug": "the-a-v-club",
    "url": "https://www.avclub.com/sony-music-warner-music-sue-anthropic-copyright-infringement"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "A new lawsuit from the music arms of two of the industry's most powerful companies alleges the so-called ethical AI company trained its Claude models on copyrighted music.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 10,
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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",
        "published": "2026-08-30T21:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Guardian Business",
        "title": "Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songs",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/anthropic-sued-over-alleged-theft-of-tens-of-thousands-of-songs",
        "published": "2026-08-31T12:42:05.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The New Stack",
        "title": "Anthropic’s Claude fixed all 10 alignment failures. Then it tried to cheat 2.4% of the time.",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/anthropics-claude-fixed-all-10-alignment-failures-then-it-tried-to",
        "published": "2026-08-31T13:09:17.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Yahoo Finance",
        "title": "Sony Music, Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over Claude AI training",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/sony-music-warner-chappell-sue-anthropic-over-claude-ai-training",
        "published": "2026-08-31T14:32:40.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "CNA - Business",
        "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-4658863",
        "published": "2026-08-31T14:38:13.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Quartz",
        "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",
        "published": "2026-08-31T14:41:19.000Z"
      },
      {
        "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"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "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-4739479",
        "published": "2026-08-31T22:42:56.000Z"
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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."
}