Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft
Major music publishers, including Sony Music and Warner Chappell, have filed a lawsuit against AI company Anthropic for alleged copyright infringement. The suit claims Anthropic used pirated content to train its Claude AI model.
Why it matters
This case is a pivotal legal battle in the ongoing conflict between creative industries and AI developers regarding intellectual property rights and training data usage.
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and numerous other music publishers have sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, alleging the AI lab conducted a “brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works.”
The lawsuit, which was filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, was first reported by Music Business Worldwide . The publishers accuse Anthropic of “blatant theft” by using thousands of copyrighted works to train its AI model Claude.
Anthropic could not be reached for comment prior to publication. TechCrunch will update this article if the company responds.
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