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.

Aug 31 : The music publishing branches of Sony Music and Warner Music have sued Anthropic in California federal court for allegedly misusing their copyrighted song compositions to train its Claude AI models.Sony and Warner said in the complaint, filed on Friday, that Anthropic pirated hundreds of song lyrics and sheet

The publishers are seeking up to $150,000 per composition and named Anthropic co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as defendants

AI company faces multi-billion dollar lawsuit over misuse of copyrighted songs to train Claude models All AI wants for Christmas is a vast back catalogue of songs without paying for it, according to a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the startup behind the Claude chatbot. Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell,

Sony Music and Warner just filed a lawsuit alleging that Anthropic developed Claude models using stolen music.

Some of the world’s biggest music publishers have launched a fresh lawsuit against Anthropic, accusing the artificial intelligence giant of conducting “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history”. The case adds to the legal challenges facing Anthropic as the firm eyes a poten

Sony Music and Warner Chappell filed a lawsuit against Anthropic on Friday. Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Claude seems to be a music fan. Sony Music and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic on Friday. The music companies said Anthropic trained its Claude AI models on stolen, copyrigh

The two music publishing groups claim thousands of instances of copyright infringement.

This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.

Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for "tens of thousands" copyrighted works. The companies are asking for up to $150,000 per work, plus up to $25,000 for each instance when identifiable copyright data was str

Some of the world's largest music publishers filed a blockbuster lawsuit against Anthropic late Friday night, alleging "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history." Why it matters: The suit is the opening salvo in what is now likely to be a yearslong fight over music, AI, and