Sony Music and Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic Over Alleged Unauthorized Use of Copyrighted Songs to Train Claude
TLDR
- Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in a Northern California federal court on Friday
- The publishers accuse Anthropic of illegally scraping and downloading copyrighted songs to train its Claude AI models
- Named songs include “Eye of the Tiger,” “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” and Taylor Swift’s “Paper Rings”
- The companies are seeking up to $150,000 per infringed song in statutory damages
- Anthropic denied the claims, saying it will “defend ourselves robustly in court”
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have sued Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, alleging it used thousands of copyrighted songs without permission to train its AI models.
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic, Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann.
They allege Claude was trained on tens of thousands of copyrighted songs obtained through torrenting and scraping.
They’re seeking up to $150K per work. https://t.co/1Js7i8MRgB pic.twitter.com/1Vx8SICnb0
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