Sony Music and Warner Sue Anthropic Over Alleged IP Theft
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have filed a lawsuit against AI company Anthropic, along with its co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann. The suit accuses the firm of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading thousands of copyrighted musical 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 legal challenge regarding IP rights; similar lawsuits have been brought by Concord Music Group and Universal Music Group earlier this year. The current case expands on previous allegations by accusing the company of acquiring millions of copies of books, including those with lyrics and sheet music, through illegal torrenting methods. The lawsuit is part of a growing trend where content creators are taking legal action against AI firms for using copyrighted material without permission.
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