Sony Music and Warner Chappell File Lawsuit Against Anthropic
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, and several other music publishers have filed a lawsuit against AI lab Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, according to a report by TechCrunch. The legal action alleges that the company conducted a campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works to train its Claude artificial intelligence models.
Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the complaint accuses Anthropic of utilizing thousands of copyrighted works without authorization. An Anthropic spokesperson stated to TechCrunch that the company disagrees with the publishers’ claims and intends to defend itself robustly in court.
This legal challenge follows previous intellectual property lawsuits against the artificial intelligence lab, including actions led by Concord Music Group and Universal Music Group, as well as the Bartz v. Anthropic case. The latest filing expands on prior allegations by claiming the company engaged in flagrant piracy to acquire millions of copies of books containing lyrics and sheet music for training data.
The ongoing legal scrutiny highlights growing tension between major content holders and artificial intelligence developers regarding the acquisition methods and training data infrastructure utilized for foundation models. Builders and infrastructure developers continue to monitor these legal developments as courts shape compliance standards for training data acquisition.
Based on reporting by techcrunch.com.
