Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed a lawsuit against Anthropic alleging unauthorized use of copyrighted music in Claude AI training
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Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging the company used copyrighted music to train Claude models. The plaintiffs seek damages up to $150,000 per work and additional statutory damages for alleged removal of copyright management information, and they also request remedies including destruction of infringing copies and disclosure related to training data.
Anthropic
Benjamin Mann
Dario Amodei
Sony Music
Sony Music Publishing
Warner Chappell
Warner Chappell Music
Claude
Claude Sonnet 5
EMI
Sony
US District Court for the Northern District of California
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