Sony Music and Warner Sue Anthropic Over Alleged IP Theft
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, and other music publishers have filed a lawsuit against AI company Anthropic and its co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann. The suit accuses the firm of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works to train its AI model Claude. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, it claims that this constitutes a 'brazen campaign' of intellectual property theft. This is not Anthropic's first IP-related lawsuit; similar cases have been brought by Concord Music Group, Universal Music Group, and authors represented in the Bartz v. Anthropic case. In one such case, a judge ruled against Anthropic for acquiring content through piracy despite it being legal to use copyrighted works otherwise. The latest suit is described as particularly broad, alleging 'flagrant piracy' involving millions of copies obtained via illegal torrenting, including books with lyrics and sheet music.
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