Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, and several other music publishers have filed a major lawsuit against AI startup Anthropic and its co-founders. The legal action, lodged in a California court, accuses the artificial intelligence lab of orchestrating a widespread campaign involving unauthorized downloading, torrenting, and web scraping of copyrighted material.
The plaintiffs claim that millions of protected works, including lyrics and sheet music, were improperly harvested to train the company’s Claude AI models. Anthropic has firmly rejected the allegations, stating an intent to vigorously contest the claims in court, as the startup continues to navigate a series of high-profile intellectual property disputes with authors and content creators.
- Sony Music and Warner Chappell file a lawsuit against Anthropic.
- Allegations focus on illegal downloading and scraping of copyrighted lyrics and sheets.
- The disputed material was allegedly used to train the Claude AI models.
- Anthropic plans to vigorously defend itself against the claims.
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