Sony Music and Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic, Allege ‘Brazen Campaign’ of Copyright Theft

BitcoinWorld Sony Music and Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic, Allege ‘Brazen Campaign’ of Copyright Theft Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, and other music publishers filed a lawsuit against Anthropic and its co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann on Friday, alleging a “brazen campaign” of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works to train the AI model Claude.

What are the specific allegations in the lawsuit? The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accuses Anthropic of “blatant theft” by using thousands of copyrighted works without permission.

The publishers claim Anthropic engaged in “flagrant piracy” through illegal torrenting to obtain millions of copies of books, including those containing lyrics and sheet music.

This case builds on earlier lawsuits but is notably broader in scope, targeting both the company and its founders personally. How does this lawsuit differ from previous cases against Anthropic? This is not the first intellectual property lawsuit Anthropic has faced.