Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music sued Anthropic over alleged massive intellectual property theft. This legal battle targets CEO Dario Amodei and cofounder Benjamin Mann personally for willful infringement involving tens of thousands of compositions.
Universal Music Publishing Group and Concord Music Group previously filed similar lawsuits against the AI developer. BMG and Round Hill Music also joined this multi-billion-dollar litigation wave targeting the Claude chatbot creator.
The complaint alleges Mann torrented five million pirated books from Library Genesis to train large language models. Internal documents supposedly show employees knew this data sourcing was sketchy but proceeded anyway to avoid licensing fees.
Plaintiffs demand statutory damages reaching one hundred fifty thousand dollars per infringed work alongside destruction of unauthorized training copies. They also want a full accounting of all datasets used to build these generative systems.
Anthropic recently settled a separate author lawsuit for 1.5 billion dollars despite holding a two-trillion-dollar valuation. Critics argue the company treats massive copyright penalties as standard operating expenses rather than deterrents against illegal scraping practices.
Universal Music Publishing Group and Concord Music Group previously filed similar lawsuits against the AI developer. BMG and Round Hill Music also joined this multi-billion-dollar litigation wave targeting the Claude chatbot creator.
The complaint alleges Mann torrented five million pirated books from Library Genesis to train large language models. Internal documents supposedly show employees knew this data sourcing was sketchy but proceeded anyway to avoid licensing fees.
Plaintiffs demand statutory damages reaching one hundred fifty thousand dollars per infringed work alongside destruction of unauthorized training copies. They also want a full accounting of all datasets used to build these generative systems.
Anthropic recently settled a separate author lawsuit for 1.5 billion dollars despite holding a two-trillion-dollar valuation. Critics argue the company treats massive copyright penalties as standard operating expenses rather than deterrents against illegal scraping practices.
